Yahoo News Enfield shooting: Young man stabbed and shot dead in third murder in the capital this week
A young man had died and another is in a serious condition in hospital after they were shot and stabbed in the street in Enfield.
It is the third murder investigation to be launched in the capital in just three days.
Scotland Yard said the victims were attacked in South Street in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The first victim, aged in his early 20s, was declared dead at the scene after medics fought desperately to save him.
He was suffering from stab injuries and a gunshot wound.
The second victim, also in his early 20s, was rushed to hospital with stab injuries where he remained on Saturday in a serious but stable condition.
Scotland Yard said next of kin have been informed but formal identification and a post-mortem is yet to take place.
His death follows a week of violence in the capital.
On Wednesday night an 18-year-old man was chased down and stabbed in Chadwell Heath, becoming the seventh teen stabbed to death in the capital this year.
On the same evening, but in a separate incident, a 20-year-old man was shot dead in Walthamstow.
Last week, rapper Kelvin Odunuyi, 19, was shot dead as he stood with friends outside a cinema in nearby Wood Green. His killing is believed to be connected to a postcode war orchestrated by gangs in Wood Green and Tottenham.
On Thursday, the Standard reported that London’s Air Ambulance attends more stabbings and shootings than traffic collisions, with the incidents accounting for 31 per cent of their work.
Its medics treated 560 victims of violent crime last year — the first time in its almost 30-year history that this category exceeded the number of pedestrians, cyclists, drivers or passengers hurt in crashes, which totalled 533.
A Met Police spokesman said: "Police were called shortly before 12.40am on Saturday, 17 March, to reports of shots fired in South Street, Enfield.
"Officers attended along with the London Ambulance Service and found two seriously injured men, both aged in their early 20s.
"Victim One was found with stab injuries and a suspected gunshot wound. He was declared dead at the scene at 1.14am.
"Victim Two was found suffering from stab injuries. He was taken to an east London hospital, where he remains in a serious but stable condition."
Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating. No arrests have been made.
