‘Gunned down outside baby’s birthday party’

A gang member was shot dead by rivals outside a church building where a first birthday party celebration was being held, a court heard. Kacey Boothe, 25, was shot seven times with the same gun used in an attack on his brother two years earlier. But his friend Khalid Samanter, the father of the one-year-old, had been the intended target of the hit in Forest Rise, Walthamstow, east London, on 13 August 2022, the Old Bailey heard. Kadeem Brightly-Barnes, 31,…