Man shot dead by police and two arrested yards from court building ‘as armed officers stopped gun-toting gang from trying to spring convicted car-jacker from custody’
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* Man killed in residential Bracknell Close, Wood Green, at 9am this morning
* He sustained ‘gunshot wounds’ and was pronounced dead at the scene
* Died during ‘intelligence led’ police operation into a bid to free criminals
* Two carjackers had their sentencing delayed at the nearby Crown Court
* Video posted online shows paramedics attempting to revive the shot man
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A man was shot dead by police after he ‘came out firing’ as armed officers thwarted an audacious bid to spring a convicted carjacker from a nearby court.
Two other men were arrested as the drama unfolded at 9am just yards from Wood Green Crown Court in north London.
Police are believed to have been tipped off that an attempt would be made to free Turkish nationals Erwin Amoyaw-Gyamfi and Erun Izzet as they attended court to be sentenced for carjacking and firearms offences.
Another two men were arrested in a nearby street in connection with the incident.
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A man was shot dead by police after he ‘came out firing’ as armed officers thwarted an audacious bid to spring a convicted carjacker from a nearby court
Armed officers shot the man in London this morning in an ‘intelligence led’ operation. He was gunned down in the area of Bracknell Close at 9am. Police and ambulance emergency response personnel are pictured attending the scene
Police officers are seen erecting and positioning a white forensics tent on the residential road in north London. Scotland Yard said two men were arrested at the scene, with another two arrested elsewhere in the capital
Police are believed to have been tipped off that an attempt would be made to free Turkish nationals Erwin Amoyaw-Gyamfi and Erun Izzet as they attended Wood Green Crown Court (left) to be sentenced for carjacking and firearms offences. This graphic shows both the court and the site of the shooting on nearby Bracknell Close
The sentencing of Amoyaw-Gyamfi and Izzet was delayed from its scheduled 10am start due to what HM Courts and Tribunals Service referred to as ‘an ongoing police matter’.
The two men arrested at the scene of the shooting in Bracknell Close, Wood Green, were held on suspicion of ‘conspiracy to facilitate the escape of an individual from lawful custody’.
They have not been named but are aged 30 and 19-years-old.
It remained unclear this afternoon what the two other men – who were arrested on Barratt Avenue, and are 31 and 25-years-old – were accused of.
Witnesses said they saw a man, who was described as being of Turkish appearance, sitting in a black Audi that was parked in an off-street parking bay near the back entrance to court building for at least half an hour before police arrived at the scene and shot him twice in the chest.
A 53-year-old scaffolder working in the road said: ‘Neighbours told me what happened was they went in there to do a raid and he did a runner.
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In the dramatic video, the man can be seen lying on the pavement while he is attended to by emergency response personnel. Two male witnesses appear to be looking over him
Dramatic video footage of paramedics attending to the wounded man was shared online in the immediate aftermatch of the shooting
Police investigators lock down the area following the shooting (left). An armed, undercover officer walks away from the scene (right)
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‘He came out shooting and police shot him with two bullets in the chest.
‘They took one guy out and took him away.’
Video footage of paramedics attending to the man who was shot was shared online minutes after the brutal altercation.
In the dramatic recording, he can be seen lying on the pavement while he is treated by emergency response personnel.
Two male witnesses appear to be looking over him. A female voice can be heard saying ‘I hope it wasn’t one of those situations where the police just fired too quickly.’
Janice Gosney, 60, a mum-of-two who lives opposite the shooting, was caught up in the early morning horror.
She said: ‘There were police everywhere. I was scared. I nearly had a heart attack. There were two guys. They looked Turkish.
‘One was on the floor behind the car and the other one was on the side of the road being arrested.’
‘They took one guy out and took him away.’
The man was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining ‘gunshot wounds’. His identity has yet to be confirmed
The street – in Wood Green – has been closed off as police attend the scene. A man was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining ‘gunshot wounds’
Witnesses have claimed the man ‘came out firing’ before being shot twice in the chest by police officers
Road worker Donald Campbell, 57, said he witnessed a flash of light in the wing mirror of his lorry after he heard officers smash the window of the black Audi estate.
He said: ‘We were in the process of laying Tarmac.
‘I was sitting in the lorry and I saw this flash of light in my wing mirror and heard a loud bang.
‘The police dragged him out of the car and turned him over. It all happened in seconds.
‘I think they shot him in his car and then pulled him out.
‘I heard a lot of shouting, they were obviously warning him. My colleague saw them smash the window first.
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‘Police were up on the balcony opposite it and shouted for me to move.
‘Police then moved in 4x4s. Obviously he had a gun otherwise police wouldn’t have shot him.
‘I think he, the dead man, was waiting for someone to come down the road but the police were clearly waiting for him.
‘They knew what was going on.’
Mr Campbell said he believes he unwittingly took a picture of the victim on his tablet while working and police have since taken it for evidence.
His colleague added: ‘They smashed the window of the black Audi and then there was this bang.
The shooting took place in Bracknell Close, Wood Green – a quiet, residential area in the north of London
A more aerial shot looks over the scene, which shows the road visibly closed off and the police tent
A forensic expert conducts an investigation in the wake of the shooting, taking samples from beside a garage door
A team of forensics analysts are seen surveying the area near where the as yet unidentified man was shot
‘Then I saw them drag him from his car.’
A gun could reportedly be seen in the road next to the man’s body however it was unclear whether it was a police weapon or not.
Nick Lindsay, a workman who was surfacing a road nearby, said the man who was shot was sitting in his car when police moved in.
He said: ‘The police all came down, they all jumped out of cars with their guns and said, “Get down”, and then there was a smash, then the gun shot went off.
‘By that time police officers grabbed us to move us out of the way.
Mr Lindsay said the incident was over in 10 to 15 seconds, but the man had been in the car for around 30 minutes before the police swooped in.
He said: ‘He was parked there for easily half an hour, I would have said, because he was there when we first turned up this morning. He must have been there at least half an hour, minimum.’
One witness said the incident was over in 10 to 15 seconds, but the man had been sitting in his car for around 30 minutes before the police swooped in
Photographs taken by a member of the public living close to the scene show the immediate emergency response following the shooting. A black Audi car can be seen with both a back door and its boot lying open
Eye-witnesses claim the man was shot as he sat in a stationary vehicle sitting at the side of the road, pictured here closed off
An armed officer is seen leaving the scene after this morning’s shooting of a man in a parked car
Land and air ambulances were called to the scene after the shooting but the victim was declared dead by the roadside. His body could be seen lying behind the parked car before a white forensics tent was erected.
There were no reports of any other injuries in the incident.
Enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the shooting are ongoing and the Directorate of Professional Standards have been informed, Scotland Yard said.
The Independent Police Complaints commission are investigating and are aiming to be able to provide more information this afternoon.
The four men arrested were today being questioned at separate London police stations.
The shooting came in the week that Scotland Yard launched a widespread crackdown on gun and knife crime in the capital
A number of cars can be seen parked close to where this morning’s shooting took place
Operation Kestrel will see hundreds of specialist officers, including firearms teams, deployed across London to counter a spike in weapon-based offences
Witnesses visiting nearby Wood Green Crown Court say police armed with sub machine guns were seen outside the building before this morning’s incident.
Erwin Amoyaw-Gyamfi and Erun Izzet were meant to be sentencing at 10am in court three.
HM Courts and Tribunals Service spokesman said: ‘There was an incident this morning but it’s an ongoing police matter.
‘Increased security is in place due to what happened this morning.
‘There was a hearing about to take place but it was adjourned until this afternoon.’
Metropolitan Police made this announcement on Twitter. Enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the shooting continue and the Directorate of Professional Standards have been informed
Bracknell Close (pictured) has now been completely closed off as police and ambulance crews attend
An air ambulance was seen landing near the scene of the shooting but despite the efforts of paramedics, one man was pronounced dead at the scene
A Metropolitan police spokesman said: ‘Officers from the Met Police Organised Crime Command and Specialist Firearms Operational Command Unit this morning arrested four men as a result of a pre-planned intelligence led operation.
‘Two of the men were arrested in the area of Bracknell Close, Wood Green.
‘They have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to facilitate the escape of an individual from lawful custody.
‘There were two further related arrests.
‘The four men arrested are at separate London police stations, and we are not prepared to provide any further information as to where.
‘During the operation in Bracknell Close a man was shot, and has subsequently died.’
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