London police released new details Tuesday about a shooting that left British Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson fighting for her life in hospital, saying Johnson was shot by a group of four men at a party but that it did not appear to be a targeted attack.
The 27-year-old mother of three has been in critical condition in hospital since she was shot in the head at a house party in south London on Sunday.
"Around 3 a.m. local time on Sunday morning, a group of four black males dressed in dark colored clothing entered the garden of the property and discharged a firearm," London's Metropolitan police Commander Alison Heydari said in a statement Tuesday.
Heydari said that police were not aware of any threats made against Johnson prior to the incident.
"We are aware of Sasha's involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and I understand the concern this will cause to some communities -- however I wish to stress that at this time there is nothing to suggest Sasha was the victim of a targeted attack," she said.
Johnson's political party, the Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP), questioned the police's account, saying in a Monday statement that "the irony is in the fact that the police have stated that there is no clear evidence that Sasha was the target of the attack, and that there are no credible death threats made towards her; however, how have the police come to this conclusion without being able to speak with Sasha regarding the death threats and investigate?"
"Do the police know who the target of the attack was, in order to conclude that Sasha wasn't?" the party added. TTIP first said on Sunday that the attack happened "following numerous death threats as a result of her activism."
TTIP -- a political movement that seeks government reform by putting forward candidates that represent a diversity of communities for public office -- also said that since the attack, it has been subject to a barrage of racist and hateful abuse.
"We have been receiving emails and social media messages celebrating Sasha's attack, messages wishing she dies, calling her a racist, and wishing better luck to the shooter next time for not killing her and so on," TTIP said Monday.
"We need to highlight the issue here in the narrative and the corruption of the system, whereby an individual gets shot in the head yet continues to receive abuse and even gets blamed for being the victim of targeted hate crime," it added.
Charles Gordon, one of the group's founding members, said that while the full details of what unfolded on Sunday are still unclear, "we do know that an attack on one is an attack on all."
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