Amazon officer shot dead by gang led by 18-yr-old

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: A 36-year-old senior manager with Amazon was shot in the head from point-blank range by a group of four to five armed assailants
in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura late on Tuesday night
His relative too was shot and is battling for life
the prime suspect, Sameer (18), sources claimed
He is the kingpin of an emerging "Maya gang" and has been allegedly involved in at least four murders
He is learned to have claimed that the man he killed, Harpreet Gill, had slapped his associate, a minor, last month and that he wanted to
avenge that insult.Police are verifying his claims and a manhunt has been launched to nab his associates, many of whom could be minors
Another suspect is learned to have been arrested by police late on Wednesday evening but the cops remained tightlipped.Gill lived with his
family in Bhajanpura
His maternal uncle, Govind Singh (32), is admitted in hospital and recuperating.Police received information about the incident from the
hospital around 11.53pm on Tuesday
According to police, Gill was shot in the head and was declared dead at the hospital
"The bullet entered from the right side of his head behind the ear and exited from the other side
Singh, too, was shot in the head and admitted to Lok Nayak Hospital," said a senior officer.Police investigations have revealed that the two
men were passing through the Subhash Vihar area around 11.30pm on their bikes
The assailants, riding a scooter and a motorcycle, intercepted them and opened fire.Hearing the noise, residents came out and discovered
Gill lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the road while the other person was gasping for breath and crying for help
This is when someone informed police.A family member said the assailants fired in the air when residents came out of their houses and then
fled the spot
personal enmity
However, nothing that could possibly lead to murder could be found.They then scanned footage from around a dozen CCTV cameras in the area to
check the routes taken by the shooters
"In one of the videos, we spotted the attackers crossing a lane on a scooter
The rider was hiding his face with a handkerchief," a senior police officer said.Police circulated the footage and generated local and
Their homes were raided but they were missing
Most of the gang members were found to be juveniles and cops had no official record on them.The cops then unofficially contacted a shelter
home official to gather some details on the juvenile offenders, a source said.DCP (northeast) Joy Tirkey said that they had registered a
another man injured in Delhi's Bhajanpura midnight shooting