Age: 27
Sex: male
Date: 26 Dec 1999
Place: Old Library Centre, Cheetham Hill
Simon Brown was shot in the head.
It was said that he didn't have any connections with gangs or drugs and that it was thought that he might have crossed a hardened criminal.
He had been at a party at the Old Library Centre in Cheetham Hill and was leaving at about 5.45am when he and a group of friends that he was with, including a cousin, were ambushed on the steps by a group of men. One of the men then pulled out a pistol and shot Simon Brown in the head.
Simon Brown had lived in Fallowfield in Manchester.