Yahoo News Brixton shooting: Teenager fighting for life among three hurt during more London violence
A teenage was left fighting for life on Thursday after a triple shooting during another night of violence in London.
Police say the youngster ‘in his late teens’, along with and a man and a woman, aged in their 30s, all suffered shotgun pellet wounds at around 11pm on Wednesday night in Brixton.
The teen is thought to have fled the scene of the shooting on a housing estate in south London, before he was rushed to hospital by friends.
Shattered glass surrounded a bus stop where the shooting took place.
It is the second major shooting incident in the capital in less than a week after semi-pro boxer Oluwafemi Omosuyi, 22, known as Femi, had ‘half his face blown off’ when he was gunned down in Peckham, south east London, on Saturday night.
The man and woman hurt in the Brixton incident were taken to a south London hospital. They sustained non-serious pellet injuries.
Detectives from Scotland Yard’s Trident anti-gang crime unit are now investigating the shooting. There have been no arrests.
A Met Police spokesman said: ‘Police were called at around 11.05pm on Wednesday to reports of a firearm discharge in Somerleyton Road, Brixton.
‘Officers and paramedics attended the scene and found two people – a man and a woman, both believed aged in their 30s, suffering gunshot pellet injuries.
‘Both were taken to a south London hospital for treatment; their conditions are not serious.
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‘A male, believed aged in his mid to late teens, subsequently attended a south London hospital suffering gunshot pellet injuries. His condition is life threatening.
‘Road closures remain in place at the scene.
‘Officers from the Trident and Area Crime Command are investigating.’
The council estate was quiet today as people living nearby told how they felt ‘unsafe’ following a recent spate of violence street crime.
A woman, whose garden backs on to the street, said: ‘I wasn’t home, but my elderly father was and he heard three loud gunshots.
‘The police left at around 5am. I don’t think anyone was really hurt as there weren’t any ambulances that we could see.
‘There’s quite a lot of crime around here; there was a stabbing last month and another shooting last week.
‘We are feeling quite unsafe; I was scared to come out of the house this morning.
‘I think there is a problem with gangs around here, but I don’t know too much about it.’
Another resident, who lives opposite the bus stop, confirmed there was three gunshots, and that they heard glass shattering.
He said the road was cordoned off until the early hours following the shooting which happened at about 11pm on Wednesday night.
A civil enforcement officer said he had not noticed the shattered glass when he finished his shift.
