Rapper tracked down and shot dead in ‘revenge attack after murder acquittal’
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A rapper was shot dead as he sat in a car in a “cold-blooded execution” as part of a revenge attack three years after he was cleared of murder, a court has heard. Tamba Momodu, 20, known as Teerose, was shot six times at point-blank range with a “powerful” 9mm handgun on October 13 2020 as he was about to go the gym in Telford, Shropshire, with two friends.
Stafford Crown Court heard Mr Momodu had moved from north London to Telford with his family in 2018 to start a new life after he was acquitted at the Old Bailey of murdering 19-year-old Abdullahi Tarabi, a rapper known as Teewiz who died after being stabbed in an alleyway in Northolt in April 2017.
Prosecutor allege Mr Momodu was “stalked” and tracked down by Tarabi’s older brother and cousin who were intent on revenge. Mahamud Tarabi, 32, and Ahmed Karshe, 30, who are both on trial for Mr Momodu’s murder, alongside Deria Hassan, 32, and Merje Ngoy, 24, are said to have found the victim’s new location after he was jailed in October 2019 for possession with intent to supply drugs and his new address was published in the press.
Opening the Crown’s case, prosecutor James Curtis KC said a number of trips, starting on September 2 2020, were made to the Telford area in different cars, 11 of those being “reconnaissance” before four unsuccessful attempts to carry out the killing were made.
It was on their 16th visit to Telford that they finally “ambushed” Mr Momodu and “singled him out for death” as he sat in the passenger seat of a friend’s Renault Megane in the car park at Bridges Business Park in Horsehay outside the Fitness Factory gym.
