Three dead after weekend of violence in London.
Two were shot dead on Sunday after a stabbing took place around midnight on Saturday.
All three murders took place within 24 hours of each other, but there is no evidence that they are related.
There was also a stabbing at a pub in Hornchurch, in which the victim was seriously injured, while a 26-year-old man was shot and killed in Queen’s Park, west London, last Tuesday. That means there were also three shootings in the capital in six days.
police released an image of a man they want to talk to about the Hornchurch incident, while seven were arrested over the Queen’s Park shooting and later released under investigation.
The most recent of the fatalities this weekend was that of a 22-year-old man who was shot at around 9.30pm on Sunday in Wood Green, north London.
Police, including armed officers, were called to High Road, near Wood Green tube station, where they provided first aid to the victim.
Despite treatment by land and air ambulance medics, he was pronounced dead at the scene at 10 p.m. His family has been notified.
Gulcan Ilhan, 36, who regularly visits Wood Green to help her brother run his shop, warned: ‘It’s not safe. I could walk to a store and god forbid there’s a shooting.
“No one feels safe walking on the road.”
Less than 24 hours earlier, around 12:35 a.m. Sunday, another man, 28-year-old Sam Brown, was fatally shot in Cheney Row Park, Walthamstow, east London.
He was taken to hospital after the Waltham Forest attack, but later died.
Locals said they expected trouble when a group of up to 100 people gathered in Cheney Row Park.
A man, who did not want to be named, said, “I used to see more and more kids showing up, so we thought… there was going to be a fight.”
A second man was taken to hospital with stab wounds at the same time as Mr Brown. He was later fired and arrested “in connection with the incident,” the Metropolitan Police said.
In Ealing, a 58-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death in a cafe.
Officers were called to the West London Star & Scorpion on Uxbridge Road just before midnight on Saturday.
The victim, also 58, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Scotland Yard has launched a murder investigation and the suspect is still detained at a West London police station.
The victim’s family has been informed and will be assisted by specialist officers, police added.
A post-mortem examination and formal identification will be arranged in due course.
Witnesses are urged to contact police at 101, 8656/23jul, or to call Crimestoppers if they wish to remain anonymous.
The spate of shootings in less than a week is unusual in London.
Until July 19, there had been no gun murders in the capital since October 31 last year.
In 2021, there were 12 fatal shootings among a total of 134 murders recorded by the Metropolitan Police.
Earlier this year, in April, the force said it had reduced gun crime, with the number of shootings, including fatal and non-fatal ones, falling from 283 in 2019/20 to 196 in 2021/22.
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