It was, said a police chief, an 'exceptional' weekend for gun crime. Two people killed and four left injured in four shootings across Greater Manchester.
The madness began on the evening of Friday February 15, 2002, when a 40-year-old man was shot dead in Crumpsall. Two men were then shot the next evening in Moss Side, and, the next day, a man and his girlfriend were both injured when a gunman fired into the couple's home in Horwich, Bolton.
The final incident was hours later - at 1am on Monday February 18. The aftermath of that would ripple through Manchester's streets for years.
It was the killing of Stephen Baba-Tunde Amos, aged 21, of Longsight, Manchester, shot outside Bexx Bar in Ashton-under-Lyne.
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