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TWO TEENAGERS HAVE been arrested after a young boy was shot and left with possibly life-changing injuries.
Scotland Yard said a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, both male, were arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary and taken into custody following the incident in Upminster, east London, on Friday night.
Police officers and the London Ambulance Service attended an address on Kerry Drive after being called at 9.30pm, finding the boy, aged around 11, suffering from a gunshot injury.
A man, believed to be in his 40s, who police later said was the boy’s father, was also found at the address with cuts to his head.
Both were taken to hospital for treatment, where the boy remains in a serious but stable condition.
Police previously said that a number of suspects had made off from the scene prior to the arrival of officers.
In an update on Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said that detectives had established that the homeowner opened the front door to a person “purporting to be a delivery driver”.
“This male, and a number of other suspects – believed to be in possession of a knife – forced their way into the property,” the force said.
It is not known whether the man’s injuries were caused by the firearm discharge or a knife, with his condition reported to be not life-threatening or life-changing.
Two firearms were recovered from the address, with work ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the incident, police said.
Local residents previously described their shock at what had happened in their quiet “leafy suburb”.
An 82-year-old local resident, who did not want to be named, said: “You just can’t imagine it. I just feel so sad for it to happen.
“I’ve lived here 32 years and I’ve never heard of anything like this before.”
Another 53-year-old local resident, who gave her name as Sharon, said she was “pretty shocked” by the incident.
She said: “It’s not the sort of area that this goes on. This is a really, really quiet lovely area. I know all my neighbours up and down on this road.”
She added: “It doesn’t happen in this road. This is a leafy suburb. People walk their dogs, people come here for a quiet life.”
Meanwhile, 18-year-old Josh Collins said his family knew the adult victim, describing him as “a nice geezer” and “just your average bloke”.
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Psycho!!!
@Johnsinker: who? You? Was it an accidental shot? Why hit the post? Do you always jump to conclusions based on no evidence? Didn’t school teach you anything?
@Caoimhín O Neill: Evidence of Multiple rounds hitting the South Korean post, would point to aimed intentional fire from the North Korean side. Added to that are all the previous incidents of attacks on the South by North Korean Forces since 1952. And taking into account that North Korea is still in a State of War with South Korea, it would be a logical and rational point to argue that this was a hostile act by North Korea.
@Mick.: what has that to do with phycho? Southern hostile acts are just as frequent
@Johnsinker: Groupie! Cocaine! Crazy!…
@Caoimhín O Neill: ah give over. Looking for an argument everywhere.
@Sid: do you agree with the original comment fishing for likes? Or do you think it should be challenged?
@Caoimhín O Neill: Actually the South Koreans have not acted aggressively to North Korea since the early 60′s. In fact they have been immensely tolerant of North Korean attacks since.
Only in the last decade there has been 18 separate attacks on South Korea by the North.
@Mick.: Apparently Poland invaded Germany to start the second world war, and the vietnamese fired on USS Maddox to start the US involvement in Vietnam .British soldiers were shot at , causing the events of Bloody Sunday.
Back with a bang……good man Kim!
The evil of communism, hundreds of millions dead since the infamous October revolution,God will be their judge
@Jimmy Carroll: he’d want to hurry on.
@Jimmy Carroll: those numbers are cold war propaganda. They have no substance. Both China and USSR had population growth that would be impossible if the deaths that the USA claimed occurred had actually occurred. I used to also believe that too but when I looked for the primary sources I got to American newspapers.
To be fair after the reported death of Kim Jung un and previous satirical stories from Hong Kong becoming fact in mainstream media , you have to be sceptical about any reporting from there.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kim-jong-un-uncle-fed-to-120-dogs-story-begun-by-chinese-satirist-9042072.html
They were probably sending each other memes and one from the South was too close to the bone.
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