Two young men have been jailed after shots were fired at a home in Birmingham – in retaliation for a fight at a nightclub.
Ryan Gibson, aged 21, fired twice through the living room window of the house in Hockley on the afternoon of 7 April, 2020.
He’d driven there in a grey BMW with 23-year-old Chakiah Lambert at around 4.10pm and after Gibson had fired those shots it was Lambert who drove him away.
Thankfully no one was seriously injured although a woman who was in the house at the time suffered cuts from broken glass.
Forensic experts found two spent bullets at the scene, one in the window and the other on the living room floor.
Using CCTV footage retrieved from the area we traced the car to an address in West Bromwich, where police later arrested Gibson.
Forensic testing on gloves seized at the property showed they contained traces of gunshot residue and a confirmed DNA match with Gibson.
Officers also seized a mobile phone and messages on it showed that the shooting was in retaliation for a fight Gibson had been in at a nightclub a month earlier. The gun has yet to be traced.
Gibson and Lambert both admitted possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear and were today sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court.
Gibson was jailed for five years and Lambert, was sentenced to five-and-a-half years.
DC Ed Ketterer, of Force CID, said: “Gibson and Lambert brought gun violence to a residential street as retribution for a fight at a club.
“Gibson may have fired the shots, but Lambert also played his part in allowing that to happen, and for this both will now spending time behind bars.”