Killers of Drill Rapper Jailed for Life After ‘Tables Were Turned’

Salem Koudou was murdered after he mounted a disastrous attack on rivals

An undated image of Salem Koudou, a drill rapper known as 16Shotz, who was stabbed to death in Brixton, south London, on Aug. 20, 2020. Metropolitan Police/PA

LONDON—Two men have been jailed for life for murdering a drill music performer who had the tables turned on him when he drove onto the turf of a rival gang in south London and attacked a rival rapper with an “enormous knife.”

Yaseen Bullock, 21, was convicted of murdering Salem Koudou, 20, at the first of three murder trials in October 2021. In October 2022 Darius Kwakye, 29, was also convicted of the murder of Koudou, who was better known by his drill name, 16Shotz.