EX-FOOTBALLER SENT TO PRISON FOR WILD SHOOTING IN STREET

FORMER academy footballer has been jailed after shooting at two people in wild scenes in a Birmingham street.

- CARL JACKSON News Reporter

Kye Lemathy was out on his e-bike last October when he got into a row with two men at a bus stop in Aston Lane, Perry Barr.

He returned home to fetch a gun which he used to confront the men, who were also on bikes.

CCTV captured a back-and-forth encounter, which led to Lemathy being forced off his bike and stabbed in the back near a petrol station on Witton Road.

In retaliation he fired at least two shots at the pair before fleeing the scene.

Lemathy, 21, of Holte Road, Perry Barr, who used to be on Walsall FC's books, was initially charged with attempted murder, but his guilty plea to possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life was accepted instead.