Masked attackers armed with swords and knives stabbed to death a young man in front of a six-year-old girl on roller skates, the Old Bailey has heard.
Victim Joshua White was chased along a street in Hackney and fatally wounded as he sought refuge in a grocery store, it is said.
The young girl was waiting for her father outside Frampton Foods when she was knocked over by the attackers, moments before the stabbing.
Theo Momodu, 18, Taylar Isaac and David Kerrigan, both 20, are all accused of murdering Mr White, 29, in a "carefully thought-through" ambush.
It is said that minutes later, they attempted to murder a second man, Rikkardo Butler, as he walked down the road with his partner who was pushing a baby in a pram.
Describing the alleged murder on April 26, 2019, prosecutor Jonathan Higgs QC said: "They chased Joshua White towards Frampton Foods, knocking the six-year-old girl flying in the process.
"I can assure you nothing happens to her other than she gets knocked to the floor, although of course she is right in the middle of events."
CCTV captured the attack on Mr White, when two of the three masked men are said to have used a "pincer" movement on him.
The Homerton resident suffered a wound to his heart and later died in hospital.
The three attackers fled the scene in a white Ford, and are then alleged to have stabbed Mr Butler.
Momodu was caught following a high-speed police chase of the Ford, jurors heard, while Isaac and Kerrigan are said to have changed their clothes at the home of Harley McGivern.
Kerrigan, Isaac, and Momodu, all from Hackney, deny murder, attempted murder, and wounding with intent.
McGivern, also from Hackney, denies perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.