Huddersfield M62 shooting: Recent deaths following police opening fire

The man shot and killed by police near the M62 in a “pre-planned operation” is said to be 27-year-old Mohammed Yassar Yaqub.

Sky sources say that Yaqub was killed at around 6pm last night while inside his silver Audi near junction 24 of the motorway in Huddersfield.

West Midlands Police say the incident was not terror related.

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The operation was the latest in a series of deaths following shootings by police.

Here is a list of the most recent:

November 29 2016

Lewis James Skelton, 31, was Tasered and shot dead by Humberside Police in Francis Street, close to Hull city centre, amid reports he was “running around with an axe”.

November 9 2016

Josh Pitt, 24, died after being shot in the chest by a firearms officer at a property in Tracey Court, off Hibbert Street in Luton, as Bedfordshire Police responded to reports that a woman had been assaulted.

August 15 2016

Ex-Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson, 48, died 90 minutes after he was shot with a Taser by a West Mercia Police officer in the street where he grew up in Telford, Shropshire.

June 14 2016

Dyfed-Powys Police called to reports of a disturbance at Maes Y Bwlch, in Llanelli, Tasered Spencer Beynon, 43, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

May 1 2016

Two firearms officers shot four times during a pre-planned police operation, leaving William Smith, 36, dead in Smiths Lane, Goudhurst, Kent. Mr Smith was on bail over the death less than nine miles away of 73-year-old Roy Blackman on March 21.

March 29 2016

James Wilson, 24, died in hospital from his wounds on April 1 after being shot by Northumbria Police officers at an address in Frenchmans Way, South Shields, South Tyneside. Police were responding to reports a man was holding a handgun.

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