A 25-year-old man is believed to have died after being shot outside a pub in south London. The incident occurred outside the Landor Pub in Clapham North on Monday night, with residents reporting hearing multiple loud bangs around 10pm.
Witnesses describe chaotic scene
One local resident, who was walking nearby, said: "I was walking up Landor Road to the shop, I heard two loud bangs coming from Willington Road. The couple in front of me looked a bit startled and he held her back. I thought, 'It's fine you hear stuff in London all the time'. I walked around them and I looked up Willington Road and there's a man running away and he's shouted something twice, but I don't know what. He ran around the corner [towards Clapham North] and I saw the victim lying on the floor looking up and then everyone realised what happened and I ran off, people ran into the shop. I was shaken."
Another resident said: "It was shortly after 10pm and I heard lots of sirens, and I heard bangs - I think it was five or something. And then I said 'do you think they were gunshots?'"
Community in shock
A shaken resident expressed fear for her two-year-old grandson growing up in the city. "It's sad what happened, that someone lost a life," she said.
Pastor Lorraine, a London-based anti-knife crime activist, said: "The scenes of body tents, blood and forensic evidence in our communities are horrifying and deeply traumatising. In our inner-city communities, where residents and families live so closely together, the impact of such violence reaches far beyond the immediate crime scene. It is the school summer holidays, and many children who have not travelled away will be waking up and looking out of their windows to this horrific scene. No child should have to witness this. It is heartbreaking."
Specialist forensics teams are scouring the scene, and police have visited nearby homes with Ring doorbells. The Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service have been contacted for comment.
