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The suspect was allegedly disguised as a garbage collector to survey the streets a few days before the shooting.
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The court learned that a gunman who used a latex mask to disguise himself was captured by CCTV and shot and killed a man in front of his wife and toddler.
Anis Hemissi, a 24-year-old Swedish national, was accused of murdering Flamur Beqiri outside his home on Christmas Eve in 2019, who was also called Alex.
It is believed that the shooting in Battersea, southwest London, was part of an escalating act of violence between two opposing Swedish criminal groups.
On Thursday, the Southwark Criminal Court learned that the 36-year-old victim was fired 8 of 10 bullets while his frightened wife Debora Krasniqi (Debora Krasniqi) was protecting their 2-year-old son. hit.
The jury saw the video and audio of the security camera installed in the couple's home.
Moments before the attack, the couple could be seen approaching his front door, and they were both holding their son's hand.
The gunman, who allegedly had been waiting for about two hours, came from behind them and could see the flash of the semi-automatic pistol when he fired.
Flamur Beqiri was shot and killed in front of his wife and children outside his London home
Mr. Beqiri fell to the floor while Ms. Krasniqi screamed as he took the boy away. Then, after the gunman escaped, she returned to her husband and held the boy in her arms.
Hemissi allegedly fled on foot and then cycled along the Thames path to a nearby apartment.
The court was informed that in an earlier video two days before the murder, the Swedish-Tunisian suspect was investigating the couple’s community.
The clip shows a man wearing high-visibility overalls, wearing a prosthetic mask and sunglasses, holding a garbage picker and garbage bag.
Local resident Jeremy Lyons (Jeremy Lyons) found the man after he had been in the area for more than four hours wearing a mask without facial expressions.
Mr. Beqiri's camera caught Mr. Lyons and asked: "Excuse me, who do you work for? Who do you work for?"
Another heard him say: "Please leave this manor."
The clip shows a man wearing highly recognizable work clothes
A video on the day of shooting showed a man allegedly Hemissi dressed in dark clothes with a scarf around his neck, a knitted hat over his ears, sunglasses, and a different latex mask.
Officer Jonathan Moore of Metropolitan Police CCTV said: "I saw this clip and the close-up of the trash clip and the impression was that this person was wearing a mask. That's why he tied his scarf tightly and his hat was Pull down and sunglasses.
"The mask is always expressionless and his mouth does not move.
"You can see from the definition of the nose that it is two separate masks. There are two different masks at work here."
Mr. Beqiri is a Swedish-Albanian, the brother of Cheshire star Missé Beqiri, and he is alleged to have links to the Swedish organized crime network as part of the escalating violence with hostile groups.
The court learned that just four months before his death, his friend Naief Adawi’s partner Karolin Hakim, 31, was shot and killed by a gunman in Malmö when the couple left the apartment with their newborn baby.
Hemissi flew to London on December 20 and left the country early on Christmas morning for Copenhagen, Denmark. Hemissi is said to be a member of four killers from Sweden.
They allegedly planned to kill Mr. Beqiri for about six months and hire locals to clean up after they return to Sweden.
Hemissi denied murder and possession of a self-loading pistol.
The 35-year-old Swedish national Estevan Pino-Munizaga, 32-year-old Tobias Fredrik Andersson and 23-year-old Bawer Karaer were also accused of being sent to help Hemissi. They also denied the murder.
Clifford Rollox, a 31-year-old British national from Islington, north London, and Claude Isaac Castor, a 21-year-old Dutch national from St Martin in the Caribbean but living in the UK, denied obstruction of justice.
Flamur Beqiri was shot and killed in front of his wife and children outside his London home
The clip shows a man wearing highly recognizable work clothes
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