As fitness fanatics worked out in the packed gym, the three young gunmen calmly walked into the weights room. Spotting their target, they pulled out a 9mm Scorpion submachine gun capable of firing 1,000 rounds a minute.
While terrified gym-goers ran for their lives, the hoodlums aimed the pistol and 'cocked' it as if planning to shoot. It was the day gang war spilled over into what should have been the family-friendly surroundings of Moss Side Leisure Centre.
Bizarrely while the terrifying rampage was ongoing, in the room next door police officers were giving a talk on violent crime.
Thankfully, the gunmen Antonio Wint, Andre Marshall, and a 17-year-old boy, didn't pull the trigger. Instead they smashed their 23-year-old victim over the head with the gun and punched him several times, leaving him battered and bloody.
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