Emotional tributes have flooded in for a 15-year-old girl shot dead in Hackney.
She was named by police as Shereka Fab-Ann Marsh after a post-mortem examination found that the teenager died from a single gunshot wound to the neck.
Two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old boy were arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to an east London police station where they remain in custody, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.
Police were called to the shooting at a house in Eastway in Hackney, east London, shortly before 4pm on Saturday. The girl was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives recovered a gun from the house yesterday.
Mourners visited the scene throughout the day to lay flowers and leave messages of condolence.
Earlier in the week she had been pictured in the local press helping to host the Jamaican High Commissioner, who visited The Urswick school where Shereka was a pupil.
Chinelle Jennings, 16, a friend, said: “She was a nice bubbly girl and she loved to party, loved shopping. She was just like the kind of girl that you would have to fall in love with.
“She liked PE. Her favourite subject was history.
“She was good at sports. She wanted to study business.”
The teenager added: “She lived with her mum, her dad was in Jamaica. They just had each other, just them two and they lived together. She cherished her mum. Her mum was very protective.”
She added she had heard Shereka was accidentally shot in the neck and bled to death.
Tributes have also been paid to the victim on Twitter and Facebook.
A Facebook page called ‘R.I.P. Shereka’ has more than 10,000 likes.
Police have been standing guard outside the terraced house where the shooting happened.
The street, which backs on to Wick Woodland, was closed overnight but reopened shortly after midday.
It is a short distance from the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives on 020 8345 3775 or, to give information anonymously, Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.