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Enfield shooting: Police appeal as two men and teen boy, 16, injured after 'gunman armed with shotgun fires into minicab'

Gordon Road, Enfield: officers were called at 6pm: @999london
Gordon Road, Enfield: officers were called at 6pm: @999london

A 16-year-old schoolboy is among the injured after a shotgun-wielding man drove up to a car and fired shots in north London, police said.

Three men were taken to hospital following the shooting, on Gordon Road, in Enfield, on Saturday night at about 6pm.

According to officers, the victims were sat in a parked mini cab before they were approached by another car that drove alongside them.

Police believe two men exited the car and one was armed with a shotgun.

Two shots were fired into the mini cab where the men were sitting, leaving two 22-year-old men and a 16-year-old boy injured.

None of the victims are in a life-threatening condition, although officers said one of the males has possibly life-changing injuries.

No one has been arrested for the attack.

Sotiri Dimpinoudis said witnesses to the shocking attack ran away to try and call police officers.

He told the Standard: "There was a brief panic during the shooting for 15 minutes, and people were running away to hide and called the cops.

"They [said] they saw the gunman running away."

The shooting comes just hours after a mother, 75, was stabbed to death in south east London.

The elderly woman was stabbed in her own home, police said, and was described as neighbours as a "lovely lady".

The victim, named locally as 75-year-old Maureen Watkins, was found fatally injured at her home in Ethnard Road on Friday afternoon.

Detectives from the Met’s Trident and Area Crime Command are desperately appealing for witnesses to the shocking attack.

In a statement, police said: “Police are keen to hear from anyone who witnessed this incident but has not yet come forward or anyone who can identify the suspects.

“Anyone who witnessed the shooting or the events surrounding it is asked to call 101, Tweet @MetCC or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.”