A convicted murderer is back in court over plots to kill two of his victim's associates in a "deadly" gang war.
Mark Fellows killed Salford criminal Paul Massey outside his home in July 2015 and was later convicted of the attack.
Now, the 40-year-old from Warrington, is being accused of carrying out two other attempted murders that took place earlier that year.
Manchester Crown Court hear that in February 2015, Abduhl Rahman Khan was shot and injured as two masked men ran up to his car and "started blasting", while the following month Aaron Williams suffered injuries to the torso, head and neck when confronted in the street by balaclava-clad assailants armed with bladed weapons.
Opening the case, prosecutor Jaime Hamilton QC said both failed attempts took place amid "gangland warfare" in Salford between the A Team, led by a man named Stephen Britton, and the Anti-A Team, headed by Michael Carroll, a former associate and friend of Britton.
He said: "It was a deadly war fought with lethal intent. At the heart of the dispute it only mattered which side you were on."
Fellows and co-defendants Jamie Rothwell, 33, Aaron Parkin, 32, Liam Gee, 31, and Warren Barnes, 32, all owed their allegiance to the Carroll gang at the time of their alleged involvement, said Mr Hamilton.
He said the dispute started in January 2015 when A Team members used a chainsaw to remove the roof of a car belonging to Carroll's ex-girlfriend, who was also threatened.
Tracker devices were then placed on Khan's Mercedes vehicle and a Volkswagen Scirocco connected to Williams to trace their movements, the court heard.
A string of incidents between the two gangs followed, including the fatal shooting of Massey, 55, who had earlier been in the company of Khan and Britton on the day he died.
Mr Hamilton said Khan was targeted shortly after midnight on February 18 as four shots were discharged, with three coming from the same weapon - probably a pump-action shotgun.
He said: "Mr Khan refused to provide a formal statement. However, he spoke with a police officer when being treated in hospital and told the officer he was sitting in his car when he saw two masked men run up and start blasting."
A month later on March 23, Williams was discovered lying bleeding on the pavement after he was attacked with a machete, said the prosecutor.
Fellows, Rothwell, Parkin and and Gee deny conspiring with Carroll and others to murder Khan.
Fellows, Rothwell, Parkin and Barnes deny conspiring with Carroll and others to murder Williams.
Parkin has pleaded guilty to alternative counts of conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm to Khan and Williams with intent.
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Jurors were told Carroll fled to Spain in August 2015 and that several members of the A Team went there at the beginning of 2016 with the intention of tracking down and killing him.
The trial continues.
