Clapham shooting: Teenager charged after two women injured by shotgun blast

Keymarni King, 18, will appear at Bromley magistrates’ court on Wednesday as officers hunt second suspect

A teenager has been charged after two women were injured by a shotgun blast following a police chase in south London.
Metropolitan Police arrested Keymarni King, 18, on Monday following a shooting in Clapham at around 4.55pm on Friday.
King was charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, enabling another to do so, aggravated vehicle taking and injury caused by an accident, and two counts of wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent.
He will appear at Bromley magistrates’ court on Wednesday as officers hunt a second suspect.
Two people were hurt with shotgun pellets and the third was injured by a moped after two suspects failed to stop and then crashed the vehicle.
One of the suspects who was carrying a shotgun dropped the firearm as they fled on foot.
The weapon discharged after it hit the ground and two women, aged 27 and 36, were injured by shotgun pellets. Police added the women were “not deliberately targeted”.
Pictures from the scene appeared to show a bullet hole in a window of the nearby Belle Vue pub.
Shortly after the shooting, a police officer was heard telling members of the public to move away from the area shouting: “Go that way, that way, that way, there’s a shotgun here.”
The video then shows an officer standing over what appears to be a firearm.
Henry Smith, who was in the Belle Vue with friends at the time of the shooting, said two women inside the pub were left bleeding after being hit by shrapnel.
He told MailOnline: “There was a really loud bang and broken glass. There were two people who ran past the window, having crashed their moped.
“There was a crashed moped outside. Two women got shot in the pub. They were alright but bleeding.
“One was shot on the side of the head or got hit by shotgun shrapnel.”
Robert Stu, 48, who saw a pedestrian getting hit by the moped at a road crossing said: “I heard a loud rev and saw a moped travelling down the road.
“A man was crossing the road at the crossing and the moped smashed into him straight in his leg and it looked like it broke his leg or shin.
“But the guy had to get up and limp off the road because traffic was coming.”
The pedestrian and two injured women have since been released from hospital.
The incident took place just half a mile away from Lessar Avenue, where Abdul Ezedi, a 35-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, doused a woman and her two children with a corrosive substance in January.
Ezedi fled to the River Thames after the attack before jumping off Chelsea Bridge into the water. His body was found just under a month later.