LAST MOMENTS
CHILLING CCTV footage shows the final moments of innocent teenager Tanesha Melbourne before she was shot and killed in Tottenham last night.
The clip, which appears to have been recorded at 8.36pm, shows the 17-year-old walking down a street in North London with three friends before her murder at 9.35pm.
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Tanesha is pictured nearest the camera wearing a grey sweatshirt in the CCTV video.
The teenage victim also shared a Snapchat video at 8.29pm of herself with pals in the backseat of a car - before she was gunned down in a drive-by shooting.
Footage shows her cruising in a car on Lansdowne Road with music blaring in the background, less than half a mile from the North London street where she was shot.
The Sun Online was shown the video today by two friends of Tanesha as they paid tribute to the "beautiful young soul". They said she was an innocent bystander killed "for no reason at all" in the latest orgy of violence crippling London.
School friend Candice Hassan, 17, told The Sun Online: "She posted on Snapchat an hour before she died.
"It’s so sad, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was just starting her life, she had not even turned 18 yet."
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Tragic last Instagram video of girl, 17, gunned down
One of Tanesha's closest friends added: "It hurts to see someone so close to home lose their life to stupidity or by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"It’s genuinely heartbreaking to lose a person like her, she was funny, caring and always knew how to make someone laugh."
It came as Tanesha's mum Sharon left a floral tribute at the scene, writing: "To my baby Neesha I’m going to miss you so much you’re always going to be with me wherever I go."
Her distraught uncle Wayne also yelled: "You took a young girl's life, you need to be dead" while visiting the murder scene today.
He had to be held back at the scene as he screamed: "What is going on? You killed my niece."
An Instagram video of Tanesha, who also attended Haringey Sixth Form College, has also emerged, showing her smiling and posing at the camera with an angel filter.
Distressed Tyesha said she rushed to the scene after hearing pals scream "Tanesha's been shot" just after 9.30pm.
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Tyesha Mingo, 21, said: "I tried to save her, she was a good girl, no trouble.
"I was telling her 'everything is going to be OK, I just kept repeating that."
She said that Tanesha's mum had rushed to the scene in Chalgrave Road, North London, to be by her daughter's side last night.
She said: "She was 17, she did not deserve that and her mum did not deserve to watch her daughter die.
"Her mum came before the paramedics, she was screaming and shouting."
London's shocking orgy of violence continues as teenage girl is shot dead in Tottenham and becomes the 47th victim this year
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Distressed Tyesha said: "Apparently the car just pulled up and then started shooting from the window."
Paying tribute, another pal said: "Tanesha was a very known, very lovable little girl in the community, she was not involved in any sort of problems with anyone.
"I can't believe she's gone. She was just an innocent child caught up in this stupid postcode war."
Tanesha was a volunteer at nearby Bruce Grove Youth Centre where she worked with children as young as ten.
Other friends have paid tribute to the teen on social media, with a friend writing: "Rest in perfect peace beautiful, this was an unfair act of cruelty & you was taken from us."
It is believed Tanesha may have been an innocent bystander gunned down in crossfire between rival gangsters - and her friends deny she was connected to any gangs.
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A local cab driver said: "It is a war here, this is not the first time there has been a shooting.
"Her friends came in screaming and I said what is going on?
"They said she had been shot, there were quite a few friends who came into the shop I was in. I ran over and she was trying to breathe, it was awful.
"She was killed for no reason at all."
Street deaths in the capital in February and March soared to 37 - the majority stabbings.
Police have since launched their 49th probe after a 16-year-boy died tonight following a shooting in Walthamstow, just three miles away, last night.
A spokesman confirmed her death and said they had been called to Chalgrove Road just after 9.30 last night to reports of a shooting.
A Met Police spokesperson said: "Officers attended along with the London Ambulance Service and found the teenage girl suffering from a gunshot wound.
"Despite the best efforts of the emergency services she was pronounced dead at the scene at 22:43 hours."
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Throughout London eight murder investigations were launched in January, 15 in February and 22 in March.
The Met police and Sadiq Khan are under increasing pressure to put an end to the bloodshed.
Anyone with information should contact police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Police units patrol the area following a fatal shooting of teenage girl, 17, in Tottenham
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