{"id":6066,"date":"2013-10-29T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/10\/29\/police-appeal-for-witnesses-after-shooting-in-handsworth\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:34:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:34:19","slug":"police-appeal-for-witnesses-after-shooting-in-handsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/29\/police-appeal-for-witnesses-after-shooting-in-handsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Appeal for Witnesses After Shooting in Handsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Man shot in Handsworth on Friday (Oct 25) was involved in an argument <\/h3>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Police-Help-460x225.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>DETECTIVES believe a man shot in Handsworth on Friday (Oct 25) was involved in an argument just minutes before he was targeted \u2013 and they\u2019re appealing to anyone who witnessed the row to contact police.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Armed officers attended Babington Road \u2013 near to the junction with Soho Road \u2013 just after 4.30pm on Friday 25 October when a local PCSO reported hearing shots fired in the area.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A 27-year-old man was found lying on the pavement having been shot in the back; he was transferred to hospital where, following surgery, he remains in a critical condition.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detective Chief Inspector Sab Johal, from Force CID, said: \u201cOfficers have been out gathering information and we now understand the shooting was the result of an argument 10-15 minutes earlier. The victim was in Bings restaurant on Soho Road ordering food minutes before he was shot \u2013 I\u2019d like to speak to anyone who was in Bings and may have witnessed a row or disturbance.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI am also keen to hear from anyone who may have been in Soho Road, near to Babington Road and Murdock Road, at the time of the shooting and again would appeal for them to call me.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cAny callers can be reassured we will speak to them in the strictest of confidence \u2013 and if people would prefer not to speak to police they can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Two teenagers aged 17 and 18 were arrested in connection with the incident and were later bailed until November pending further enquiries.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man shot in Handsworth on Friday (Oct 25) was involved in an argument &#13; &#13; DETECTIVES believe a man shot in Handsworth on Friday (Oct 25) was involved in an argument just minutes before he was targeted \u2013 and they\u2019re appealing to anyone who witnessed the row to contact police. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Armed officers [&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-6066","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\/6066","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=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/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=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}