Four men involved in a drive-by shooting of four women and two girls outside a church as they left a funeral service have been jailed.
Tyrell Lacroix, 23, Jashy Perch, 20, Jordan Walters, 24 and Alrico Nelson-Martin, 20, were involved in the gang attack that left a girl and a woman with life-changing injuries.
The victims – aged between 11 and 54 – were struck with pellets from a sawn-off shotgun fired into a crowd of people outside a funeral at St Aloysius Church in Euston, north London, in January last year.
One of the girls was left with a metal pellet embedded in a muscle near her heart, which will affect her health for the rest of her life, and one of the women was left with serious injuries that hampered her hearing and balance.
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The planning of the attack began in November 2022 when Lacroix found the black Toyota car that would be used in the shooting, Scotland Yard said.
Lacroix, of St John’s Wood, was part of a gang in north London and believed members of a rival gang would be at the memorial service.
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Nelson-Martin supplied the sawn-off shotgun to those who were in the vehicle at the time of the shooting on 14 January 2023.
CCTV showed Walters, Lacroix and Perch circling the church in a car before one of them opened fire into the crowd, detectives said.
All four defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to wound with intent to cause serious harm, the Met Police said.
At sentencing on Friday:
Lacroix was jailed for 26 years for conspiracy to wound with intent to cause serious harm.
Walters was jailed for 13 years for the same offence.
Perch was sentenced to 20 years in jail for conspiracy to wound with intent to cause serious harm, for having an offensive weapon, and for possession of cannabis.
Nelson-Martin was jailed for 14 years for conspiracy to wound and possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life.
