A mum who heard a "pop" drift in from her bathroom window before following the sound outside was horrified to find her own son dying in the street.
Only moments earlier, Justina Bobmanuel's son Zikel had visited her home in Openshaw, Manchester. The dad-of-four, whose youngest child was only six weeks old at the time, had died in the street outside, despite the best efforts of paramedics. His heartbroken mum Justina recalled how Zikel began 'pacing' as he spoke with someone on the phone that day.
She said: "It was unusual, I just knew something wasn't right." It was later found that Zikel had been speaking with his half-brother Rumaal Ingram, 36, better known as Marley. The pair were said to have a "tempestuous" relationship. Justina overheard Zikel had asked someone to clean some trainers, and was being asked for "extra money on top".
Zikel had bought new trainers since and wasn't interested in them anymore, she overheard him say. Zikel then told her that Ingram had threatened to shoot Zikel in the legs over the phone. She recalled: "I just turned around and said 'he wouldn't. His own brother! He's not going to do that. He is probably just mouthing off, your brother wouldn't do that."
She then told Zikel to stay inside as a precaution, but when he left, she headed for the bathroom. She continued: "I didn't think it was going to happen. There was a little bit of fear at the back of my mind, just because really I know what type of guy Marley is. I really didn't think any harm to Zikel was going to happen."
"I just thought Marley had shown the gun and one of my neighbours had called the police. I didn't think my son was going to lose his life over a daft argument. You don't bring a gun for somebody for a pair of trainers do you? It was a trivial argument, I don't even know what it's got to do with Rumaal, the argument had nothing to do with him." The siblings, who shared a father, had quite a distant relationship, until their lives were brought together once again by a man named Emmanuel Onasanya.
After cleaning a pair of trainers, Emmanuel posted his work to Snapchat and a friend encouraged him to start a business. He then created an Instagram page called Manny's Kicks. Ingram noticed the account and became a regular customer before Zikel also became a customer of Mr Onasanya.
While it was unknown to him at the time, an order placed by Zikel would trigger a row that ultimately ended in Ingram shooting him dead in the street. Zikel handed over five pairs of trainers to Mr Onasanya for them to be cleaned. Mr Onasanya's usual fee was £25 or £30 per pair, but he agreed to give a discount and charge £20 per pair, due to the bulk order.
He cleaned the trainers, but Mr Onasanya said months went by without any arrangement for them to be handed over and payment to be made. Two weeks before the killing, Zikel messaged Mr Onasanya 'out of the blue'. Mr Onasanya later recalled: "He wanted to pay the £20 we agreed, but I said to him 'I've had your trainers this long, I've had to store them, you can't have that price anymore."
He claimed Zikel became 'abusive' before the conversation came to an end. Then on March 25, the row came to a head again when the pair began exchanging messages. Zikel heard that his half-brother had become involved, and talk of a meeting soon followed. The trio planned to meet near Zikel's mother's home. Mr Onasanya said he asked Ingram to come with him "in case Zikel tried anything". The pair then pulled up in a car and Ingram had armed himself with a gun.
Mr Onasanya said he was not aware Ingram was going to attend the meet with a firearm. Zikel was sitting on a wall when he noticed Ingram arriving. Shortly after, Ingram pulled out the gun and fired. The single bullet hit the road in front of Zikel, but it fragmented and ricocheted from the ground and bounced up, killing him.
At the trial, Ingram claimed it was a warning shot to 'scare' Zikel, who he said he feared may be armed. Mr Onasanya was in 'disbelief', he said, as Ingram ordered him to get back in the car and drive away. He later recalled: "I was hysterical, I just kept saying 'what have you done, that's your brother!' He just told me to drive. He still had the gun on him." He drove a short distance away before Ingram got out. Days later, he was arrested by police in Leeds and the gun was never recovered.
Mr Onasanya returned to the scene of the shooting, and oddly took a picture of Zikel. Asked why, he maintained it wasn't done for a 'bad' reason. He explained: "I don't know, at that moment I had the impulse, would anyone believe what I am saying right now? I knew at some point, this was serious, the police would get involved, to kind of show my side of it."
He later handed himself in to police, accompanied by a neighbour who was a retired police officer. Mr Onasanya appeared to be shocked when he was arrested on suspicion of murder. "So I'm under arrest?," he said at Ashton-under-Lyne police station. "I'm a witness though. I've come to do the right thing."
When the case reached the crown court, prosecutors alleged that Ingram had intended to shoot his half-brother in the legs and therefore cause him serious harm. He admitted manslaughter, but denied murder. A jury found him not guilty of murder. His barrister said Ingram had brought the gun to 'threaten' and 'deter' Zikel, and that he only made the decision to open fire at the scene.
Prosecutors argued that Mr Onasanya, 33, had enlisted Ingram's 'support and assistance', and claimed he was complicit in the shooting. He denied murder and manslaughter and was found not guilty of both charges. Ingram on the other hand was sentenced to life in prison, where he will serve a minimum of 16 years for manslaughter.