Police investigating the murder of a teenager in a suspected row over gang territory have arrested a 17-year-old.

Etem Celebi was shot dead at close range last week while sitting on a wall with friends on an estate in Hackney, east London.

Scotland Yard said the suspect is being held at an east London police station.

The 17-year-old died in his parents' arms after being approached by two youths on the Smalley Close Estate last Wednesday.

Witnesses reported hearing up to five shots and then a pause and then two more in the cold-blooded attack.

Earlier police said they were hunting two hooded men in their teens or early 20s over the shooting.

Residents said the estate had in recent weeks been a battleground between rival gangs fighting a turf war.

The talented footballer was the 23rd teenager to die in a knife or gun killing in London this year.

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