The colleagues of the BLM activist who was shot in the head in London say they’ve been getting messages gloating about the attack

• Sasha Johnson was shot in Peckham, London, on Sunday, and is now in critical care post-surgery.
• Her political organization said it has received gloating hate messages about the attack.
• Police said they believe the attack was not targeted at Johnson.
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The political party of a Black Lives Matter activist who was shot in the head in London said that they have received hateful messages gloating about the attack.

Sasha Johnson, who is a leading member of the Black-led Taking The Initiative Party (TTIP) and BLM UK, is in critical care after surgery following Sunday morning's shooting, the party said in a statement shared with Insider on Monday.

Johnson, 27, was shot shortly before 3 a.m. local time Sunday at a party on Consort Road, Peckham, London's Metropolitan Police Service said. While the police said there was "nothing to suggest" that this was a targeted attack, TTIP said Johnson had received "numerous death threats" prior to the shooting.

The group also said it had received several hateful messages since the shooting.

"Since the incident, 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," the group said.

Insider has seen samples of the messages received and has chosen not to publish them.

TTIP also said that posts from a Twitter account purporting to be Johnson were circulating online. @SashaJohnsonBLM is "not created by Sasha [and is] created to persecute her," tthe party said.

The account, which had two followers, purported to belong to the "Oxford Black Lives Matter Leader," dated back to May 2020 and was permanently suspended as of Tuesday.

A spokesperson for Twitter told Insider that the account was suspended under its platform manipulation and spam policy, which covers fake accounts.

Nonetheless, screenshots of the tweets - which included messages calling on white people to be enslaved - have continued to circulate widely, presented as real, and used to claim that Johnson holds anti-white views.

One tweet, which showed a post from the fake Twitter account and called Johnson a "Black supremacist," has received hundreds of shares.

The posts from the fake account "are not reflective of Sasha nor Taking the Initiative Party's beliefs," TTIP said.

'Nothing to suggest Sasha was the victim of a targeted attack'

In a Tuesday statement shared with Insider, Met Commander Alison Heydari said the suspects were four Black men.

"A group of four black males dressed in dark colored clothing entered the garden of the property and discharged a firearm" on the night of Johnson's attack, she said.

Heydari added: "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."

TTIP has questioned the Met's conclusion that Johnson was not targeted, arguing that the police had not spoken to her about the threats she had received.

TTIP also objected to a Monday report by ITV News, which included an interview with a person named Imarn Ayrton who identified as a friend of Johnson and said the shooting was "more related to rival gangs."

In its statement, TTIP said Ayton is not a friend of Johnson's and was not in a position to speak about the shooting.

"We are disgusted by the way that this narrative has been portrayed as a 'black on black crime' and a 'gang crime,' not acknowledging that this is a hate crime or a targeted attack at worst," the group said.