Gunned down outside a supermarket while shopping for groceries with his brother, 18-year-old Ryan Bravo became London's latest victim of youth violence last week.
Bravo's murder at a Costcutter store in Walworth, south-east London, made him the 22nd teenager to be killed in gang-related violence in the capital this year.
The London Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) is now forming a Serious Youth Violence Board to tackle the wave of attacks in the capital.
Yet efforts by the capital's children's services to tackle the problem have been proving haphazard.
Off the record, the police tell of their frustration at the lack of a co-ordinated response from councils to the problem, pointing out that while they can pick up the pieces, only children and youth services can tackle the root causes.
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