Results tagged “shooting”

Detectives investigating the Greenwich murder of Genson Courtney have made another arrest.

A 20-year old man was arrested today on suspicion of murder and is being held in custody at a central London police station. He is the fourth man to have been arrested in connection with the shooting in July.

Witnesses are being sought following a shooting of a teenager in Poplar over the weekend.

Police were called to East India Dock Road just before 2am on Sunday morning after the 17-year-old victim was shot in the back. He is currently in a stable condition in hospital.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Genson Courtney in Greenwich.

The men, aged 28, 34 and 27, were arrested this morning at addresses in east and south London on suspicion of Mr Courtney's murder in July. They are being held at a central London police station.

Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses in connection with the shooting of Genson Courtney in Greenwich.

The 23-year-old died of a gun-shot wound to the head following an incident on Banning Street on July 3 just before 11pm. No arrests have been made.

A 23-year-old man has died following a shooting last night (July 3rd) in Greenwich.

He has been as Gensen Courtney, the stepson of former gangster turned author Dave Courtney.

Police believe a man from Poplar who died yesterday afternoon (May 10) following a shooting on Friday night may not have been the intended victim.

Wayne Stockdale was cycling on Rounton Road, E3 when he was shot in the head.

Work has started on building the London 2012 shooting venue at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich.

The Olympic Delivery Authority has released images of what the temporary venue will look like when it hosts the Olympic and Paralympic shooting competitions, as well as Paralympic archery. It is the final 2012 venue to start being constructed.

A man is a critical condition following a shooting in Bromley by Bow on Friday.

Police were called to Rounton Road at 10.20pm after reports of shots and found the 42-year-old victim with gun shot wounds to the head and leg.

Work is due to start next month on the venue for shooting at the 2012 Olympic Games but the much-touted iconic backdrop will not be visible to spectators during the event.

The Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, is listed on london2012.com as intended to "provide a stunning backdrop for the shooting, paralympic shooting and paralympic archery events," despite the fact that once inside the venue, visitors will have their view obscured by a safety net and exclusion zone.

Greenwich Council has approved the use of land in Woolwich for shooting and archery during the 2012 games.

The council's planning board agreed that the Royal Artilery Barracks site was suitable for Olympic and Paralympic rifle, pistol, trap and skeet shooting and Paralympic archery.

A gunman who opened fire on a crowd of pubgoers in Greenwich has been sent to prison for 17 years, writes Rob Virtue.

Thomas Scott, 29, of Tourmont Road in Plumstead, had been ejected from the North Pole in Greenwich High Road in the incident last February.

MURDERED club-goer Curtis Smith was gunned down just hours before he was due to celebrate his first wedding anniversary.

The West London carer, 36, was visiting Club Red in Cable Street with a wheelchair-bound man when he was shot early on Sunday. He was working night shifts to pay for a new home. His wife Sara issued an appeal on Friday for any information on the murder of her husband.

THE SHOOTING of a clubber outside a Limehouse nightclub has sparked calls for increased police patrols around the area’s late-night haunts.

West Londoner Curtis Smith became the 90th person to be murdered in London this year when he was gunned down outside Cable Street’s Club Red in the early hours of Sunday morning. Carer Andrew Denty, 29, from Waterloo will appear before Thames Magistrates next week charged with the murder.

POLICE have arrested a man following a fatal shooting outside a Limehouse nightclub.

The man, who is in his twenties, remains in custody following the murder of a 35-year-old West London man outside Club Red in Cable Street, in the early hours of Sunday, July 27.

The victim, who is believed to have been at the club with friends, was shot in the head and neck as he left the premises.

Police were called to reports of a shooting at 3.45am.

The victim was later pronounced dead at the scene.