Businessman shot dead by brother

Zikel Bobmanuel died after a bullet him in the neck in Openshaw 

Zikel Bobmanuel

A businessman was shot dead by his brother following a row over a pair of trainers, a murder trial heard. Zikel Bobmanuel died after his brother Rumaal Ingram opened fire in the street.

The bullet hit the floor and ricocheted, hitting 32-year-old Mr Bobmanuel in the neck. Jurors at Manchester Crown Court heard that Mr Bobmanuel, who ran his own clothing firm, had been involved in an argument with another man named Emmanuel Onasanya over a pair of trainers.

Onasanya, 32, claimed he was owed money in relation to the trainers, the court heard. Prosecutors claim that he 'enlisted the support and assistance' of Ingram, and that the pair went to meet Mr Bobmanuel in Openshaw on March 25.

Ingram, 36, has admitted firing the gun which killed Mr

 Bobmanuel. Gordon Cole KC, prosecuting, told jurors that Ingram had previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

He and Onasanya both deny murder. Mr Cole said: “It is Mr Ingram who fired that gun, and having fired the gun, the bullet went into the floor first, but went into the neck of Mr Bobmanuel and killed him.

“The dispute was over some training shoes. The dispute was over money being owed to Onasanya by Mr Bobmanuel." Jurors heard that Mr Bobmanuel and Ingram share the same father.

Emmanuel Onasanya outside Manchester Crown Court (Image: Manchester Evening News)

Giving evidence, Mr Bobmanuel's mother Justina Bobmanuel said she knew the pair rowed in the past but didn't believe they had previously descended into violence. She said: "I knew that they had arguments just like any other siblings have arguments."

Ms Bobmanuel told how on the day he was killed, her son had come to her home to pick up some belongings from her late father's property nearby. She said she heard Mr Bobmanuel arguing with someone on the phone. She said he told him it was a friend of Marley, a nickname which Ingram uses.

“It was regarding a couple of pairs of trainers," Ms Bobmanuel said. She claimed that Ingram had threatened to shoot her son in the leg, in a further call.

Police at the scene in Openshaw (Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)

“I just turned around and said ‘he wouldn’t," she told the court. “His own brother, he is not going to do that. He is probably just mouthing off, your brother wouldn’t do that.”

Ms Bobmanuel said she asked him to stay inside but that he later left. She later saw police arrive and found her son on the floor, the court heard.

Jurors were told that both Ingram and Onasanya deny murder. Speaking of Onasanya's case, Mr Cole said: "He is going to say he knew nothing about this, he played no part in any joint shooting, he didn’t know there was a gun, he didn’t know there was a shooting going to be carried out.

Of Ingram, the prosecutor added: "He is going to say he didn’t intend to fire the gun and hit Zikel Bobmanuel with a bullet despite firing it, we say, in his direction."

The trial of Ingram, of Bucklow Avenue, Fallowfield; and Onasanya, of John Beeley Avenue, Openshaw; continues.