A MOB of masked Asian men in search of revenge found a group of Afro-Caribbeans and blasted one of them at random in the chest with a shotgun, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
Meshack Brown fled from the scene but collapsed and was taken to hospital, where doctors were unable to save his life.
Mahtab Azam, 20, of Francis Road, Lozells, Asif Nadeem, 27, of Brunswick, Handsworth, and Mohammed Asif, 20, of Lime Grove, Lozells, all deny murdering Mr Brown and a charge of conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
Stephen Linehan QC, prosecuting, said: “This case is about the death of a young man from the Afro-Caribbean community. He was killed by a large group of men from the Asian community in revenge for attacks by Afro-Caribbean men upon Asian men.”
He said on November 13 last year, there were two separate incidents, one in Lime Grove and the other in Francis Road within 25 minutes of each other, when two Asian cousins were both stabbed in the leg by Afro-Caribbeans.
“It would not surprise you to hear that the news of these two attacks spread,” he said.
As a result, Asian men gathered in the area and talked about the stabbings, said Mr Linehan.
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