Chilling moment e-bike killer shoots dead wrong man in tragic case of mistaken identity after opening fire in street
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THIS is the chilling moment an e-bike killer shot dead the wrong man in a tragic case of mistaken identity. Jake Brown, 23, was captured blindly opening fire in the Sheffield street in revenge for a botched robbery earlier that day. But as the killer fired the weapon, innocent Kevin Pokuta, 19, was blasted in the head by a bullet.
![[Jake Brown shot dead a teen in a case of mistaken identity]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/shocking-video-footage-captures-moment-958088044.jpg?strip=all&w=816)
The teen, who had just been sat in a car with his brother at the time of the horror, was rushed to hospital but sadly couldn't be saved. The footage then showed Brown calmly fleeing the scene on the e-bike. He has now been jailed for at least 36 years after being convicted of murder.
![[Kevin was sat in a car when he was shot in the head]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/shocking-video-footage-captures-moment-958088051.jpg?strip=all&w=708)
Sheffield Crown Court heard Brown and accomplices Leon Waite, Lester Ramsey, Adam Mulligan and a 17-year-old boy had plotted to rob a cannabis factory on December 12 last year. But the raid was foiled when a car resembling Kevin's Skoda was driven at the group by one of the factory owners.
![[Brown had been looking for another man to kill in a revenge attack]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/shocking-video-footage-captures-moment-958088047.jpg?strip=all&w=575)
Hell-bent on revenge, Brown went on a hunt for the driver and instead stumbled across Kevin and his brother. After mistaking the teen for his intended target, the killer pulled up to the car and pulled the trigger. Sentencing, Mr Justice Lavender told Brown: "You Jake Brown didn't know [Mr Pokuta] and you had nothing against him.
![[He has been jailed for murder]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/shocking-video-footage-captures-moment-958088064.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
"It was a tragedy you fired up, no doubt, with the desire for revenge and mistook him for the man who drove at you earlier.". "He left behind a wife, two small children and two brothers, one who witnessed his death, and a mother and a father who died shortly after.".
