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A 16-year-old boy shot in the face in east London was murdered in a case of mistaken identity, a family friend has said.

The teenager, named locally as Amaan Shakoor, died on Tuesday night after being taken to hospital with gunshot injuries.

Speaking at the scene of the shooting at Walthamstow Leisure Centre, a family friend, who would only give his name as Osman, said the victim was "in the wrong place at the wrong time" in a case of "mistaken identity".

Osman, 32, said: "There are gang wars going on and this young lad has just unfortunately got caught up in it.

"He was in his last year at school studying for his GCSEs. He had his whole future ahead of him."

The teen's death came just hours after the fatal shooting of Tanesha Melbourne, 17, in Tottenham, north London. Although the two shootings were just a few miles apart, they are not thought to be linked.

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The deaths brought the amount of people killed in the capital this year to 46 - before a man died during a suspected burglary in Hither Green on Wednesday morning.

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the violence in London had been "deeply traumatising", adding that lessons could be learned from Scotland where knife crime was reduced.

But Ms Abbott advised against using random stop and search methods because it has "poisoned relationships" between the police and community.

She said an evidence-based approach is an "important weapon against all types of crime."

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Ms Abbott added that work also needed to be done with children in primary school so they could be educated early on and "understand the dangers" of knife crime and gang activity.

Scotland Yard's gang crime unit are testing ballistics and recovering CCTV at the scene of the Walthamstow shooting.

Acting detective chief inspector Glenn Butler said: "I fully appreciate the alarm, shock and revulsion caused by this murder and other fatal shootings we have seen across London over the last few months.

"We are doing everything we can to identify the culprits and bring them to justice. We can't do this alone. We need those within the community who have information about those involved to search their own conscience and call us with information.

"Detailed forensic testing including ballistic analysis and the recovery of local CCTV footage is in hand and my officers will be knocking on doors."

Paramedics battled to save Tanesha Melbourne but she was pronounced dead in Chalgrove Road, near Northumberland Park station, at 10.43pm on Monday.

A 21-year-old woman, who said she knew Tanesha, said the teenager was "just chilling with her friends" when she was shot from a car for "no reason at all".

She went on: "The car just pulled up and just started shooting."

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Tanesha's mother laid flowers at the scene on Tuesday, leaving a card which read: "To my baby Nesha. I'm gonna miss you so much, you're always gonna be with me everywhere I go."

The victim's uncle, Wayne Melbourne, told Sky News the 17-year-old was a "good girl".

"She's finished her schooling and gone on to work," he said. "She's never hung around with any gang crime or anything."

He said Tanesha's mother, who is his sister, was "devastated" by the death of her first child.

Referring to claims Tanesha was shot in crossfire, he said: "If you are going to shoot at someone shouldn't you make sure you are pointing (the gun) at the right person?

"And if you hit the wrong person, shouldn't you stop and hold your hands up? You should think about all the mums and sisters and brothers out there."

He went on: "We've got to stomp on black-on-black crime. We've got to educate our youth that gun crime and drugs are not the way forward".

Another incident on Sunday evening left a 16-year-old boy in hospital after he was stabbed near Bow in east London.

Four teenage boys - two aged 16 and two aged 15 - have been charged with GBH after appearing at Stratford Youth Court.