{"id":2427,"date":"2006-12-08T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/12\/08\/man-critical-after-city-shooting\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:46:21","slug":"man-critical-after-city-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/08\/man-critical-after-city-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critical after city shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong>A 62-YEAR-OLD man is in critical condition in hospital after being shot as he sat in his car on Thursday evening.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The incident occurred at about 7:20pm at the junction of Heather Road and Somerville Road, Small Heath.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 62-year-old local man had just left a shop to get into his silver Toyota Avensis car parked near the junction. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe vehicle was then approached by two men who smashed a window and fired into the car twice with a shotgun.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe victim suffered serious wounds to his abdomen and one of his legs.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe two gunmen then ran to a white saloon car driven by a third man. The vehicle sped off along Heather Road towards Coventry Road.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>DI Simon Vowles said the motive for the shooting was unclear and detectives were keeping an open mind.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe inquiry is in its early stages but there is nothing initially to suggest that the shooting is connected to any other incident.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe victim remains in a critical condition. However, given that he was shot twice at close range the incident could easily have had far more serious consequences.\u201d<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe three offenders wore balaclava-type ski masks and are all believed to be Asian. Local house-to-house enquiries are also being conducted.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAnyone who witnessed the incident, or who may information about the offenders, is urged to ring 0845 113 5000 and ask to speak to detectives at Stechford police station.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 62-YEAR-OLD man is in critical condition in hospital after being shot as he sat in his car on Thursday evening. &#13; The incident occurred at about 7:20pm at the junction of Heather Road and Somerville Road, Small Heath.&#13; The 62-year-old local man had just left a shop to get into his silver Toyota Avensis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}