Twenty-three-year-old Ricardo Cunha worked as a window cleaner and lived with his girlfriend in a flat on Elder Road in West Norwood, London.
At approximately eleven-twenty p.m. on the night of September 11th, 2010, Ricardo and his girlfriend were in their bedroom watching television when they heard a knock at the front door. Ricardo peered out the bedroom window to see who was knocking, and he was suddenly shot in the head. He died instantly.
Later investigation suggested that the firearm used in the murder was a 1924 Webley Mark Six Revolver. The same weapon or one very like it was used in a shooting incident at the Clapham Park Estate in Brixton three days before Ricardo was shot. No one was injured in the Brixton incident, and the gun was found nearby on September 15th.
Authorities suspect that Ricardo was not the intended target and that his murder was a case of mistaken identity.
A new appeal to the public was made in 2020, on the tenth anniversary of Ricardo Cunha’s death, and a £30,000 reward was offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Ricardo’s killer. As of July 2024, however, the culprit remains unidentified.
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