Murder victim: Leroy Mitchell
Almost four years after a fatal shooting in a South Croydon car park, a man has appeared in court charged with the murder.
Cimarron Dume-Gooden, 32, of no fixed address, was charged on Monday with the murder of Leroy Mitchell and perverting the course of justice. Dume-Gooden appeared at at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Mitchell, 35, a father of three, was shot with a shotgun on Birdhurst Road in the early hours of October 2, 2021.
A police man-hunt saw one suspect arrested, but later released, and a £20,000 reward offered for information leading to an arrest from charity Crimestoppers.
Mitchell was shot after attending a silent disco.
He was described as a “devoted father of three children”.
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