It's almost 18 years since Jessie James, a boy of 15, was shot dead as he was riding his bike through a park in Moss Side. He had no involvement in gangs.
His only misfortune - the misfortune that cost him his life - was that he was cycling through a park in his neighbourhood which the notorious Doddington gang considered their own.
For members of their trigger-happy rivals, the Gooch gang, it was an opportunity too good to miss. About nine shots were fired.
To the gunman, the fact the target was a child wasn't important. Jessie was shot four times in the chest and abdomen, collateral damage in the uber-violent gang war that was being waged in south Manchester at the time.
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