Bloodbath as delivery man caught up in horror gang shooting dies

A DELIVERY driver finishing his shift was caught up in the latest gangland shooting in lawless London.

The bloodbath – the second in the city inside a week – claimed the lives of Guilherme Messias Da Silva and drill rapper Lamar Scott.

Mr Da Silva, 21, was on his final job of the evening for Deliveroo when he was knocked off his motorcycle by two cars involved in a high-speed chase through Herne Hill, south London.

Mr Scott, 27, and known as ‘Perm’, jumped from his wrecked silver MG but was chased by a gunman and shot dead at around 7.50pm on Sunday.

Horrified witnesses said up to a dozen shots were fired and Mr Scott was hit in the chest and head. Scotland Yard is hunting the killer.

One witness said: ‘I was putting my kids to bed when I heard an almighty crash like two trucks colliding. Then there were nine to 12 gunshots, which I thought must have been fireworks.

‘I came outside and the young man was lying in the street – a big wound in his chest and one in the head. It was horrific.’

Mr Da Silva, pictured, died at the scene from injuries sustained in the crash. He had moved to the UK two years ago from the town of Petrolina de Goias in central Brazil.

His colleague, Paulo Silva, 42, said: ‘He was a lovely young man. It is so sad. He had plans to return to Brazil but now he has lost his life for nothing.’

Mr Scott was the son of boxer Dillian Whyte’s promoter, Dean Whyte, and the heavyweight, who lost to Tyson Fury at Wembley in April, shared tributes on Instagram last night.

A friend of Mr Scott who gave her name only as Shanz, 27, said it was likely he had been caught up in a ‘postcode war’ between rival gangs.

Chief superintendent Colin Wingrove of Scotland Yard said Mr Da Silva was an innocent caught up in violent incident.

The deaths come just five days after two other young men were gunned down in Ilford, east London, in an attack also thought to be linked to drill, an ultraaggresive form of hip-hop.