Tributes pour in for Teenager SHOT and Killed in #Hackney, #London UK

Shereka Marsh via Telegraph U.K

Last week Shereka showed Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet-Assamb, the Jamaican High Commissioner, around her school. Today she is DEAD and I remember reporting this as it broke last night at 11.23pm. The death of Shereka Marsh is raising questions about gun violence in ethnic minorities in London and the UK in general. This kind of thing has never existed and was limited mostly to North America!

The 15-year-old girl who was shot dead has been referred to as a "beautiful angel" as she is identified by friends on social media as Shereka Marsh.

Shereka Marsh via Facebook

Police were called to reports of a shooting at a house close to the Olympic Park in east London shortly before 4pm on Saturday.

The London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance went to the house, which is not the teenager's home, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old boy were arrested nearby and taken to a police station where they remain in custody. Some reports say the gun was fired accidentally. Where did these teens get the gun from?

Police said the gun was recovered from the house in Eastway, in Hackney, east London.

With files from Telegraph