Posted on 04/03/2018 3:20:49 AM PDT by BBell
Two shootings in London in the space of an hour have left a 17-year-old girl dead and a boy, 16, critically ill.
The teenage girl was found with a bullet wound in Tottenham on Monday night and pronounced dead at the scene.
The boy had been found with gunshot wounds in Walthamstow earlier, with another boy, 15 who had stab injuries.
The shootings come amid concerns over rising violent crime in the capital. Police are not treating the shootings as linked.
Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, said the 16-year-old boy - who was shot on Markhouse Road and taken to a hospital in east London - is still in "intensive care".
She added that the 15-year-old boy's stab injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
In Tottenham, a police cordon remains in place in Chalgrove Road, near Northumberland Park, where the girl was pronounced dead at 22:43 BST.
A witness said a woman, believed to be the victim's mother, began "screaming" when she discovered the girl shortly after the shooting.
David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, said he is "deeply worried" about London's rise in violent crime - particularly in his area.
"There is no single cause, but there has been a big spike in both gun crime and knife crime across London," he said.
"Certainly my constituency finds itself at the epicentre of that. there are real issues about a lack of resources."
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Lack of resources? Does he mean going after legit gun owners and jailing people protecting their homes has been draining “resources”...
Don’t forget going after people for “thought” crimes.
Oh yes. The list goes on from there
"...and a boy, 16, critically ill..."
I find it interesting that there is a link at the article titled “Police: Are black knife deaths being ignored?”
And not long after their murder rate topped NYC for the first time since like 1904.
Yes. Yes there is a single cause. And it's name is Allah, piss be upon him.
I was considering going to Walthamstow Market on an upcoming trip. After reading this, I’ll stick to Central London.
I did not read that one but it is eerily similar to black on black shooting deaths being ignored here.
Mayor Khan: “That’s just part and parcel of living in a big city.”
Londonstan.
London needs to enact stronger gun laws.....oh.....wait.....
Impossible! British subjects are forbidden to own weapons!
I’m sure they were watching people on cameras as well, there are so many of them in the towns and cities of the UK....sarc
Watching crime on camera means that the police job is easier, not that there is any safety.
The police were too busy pursuing the real perps...someone that commented about Islam on Facebook.
Yes, this is the first time I have ever heard of a gunshot wound, referred to as an illness. Do these a$$ holes realize how stupid this makes them look? Maybe they just don’t give a rats’s a$$ what it makes them look like.
I was in Fulham last week.
When searching for Holland&Holland's and Purdey's web pages, the filters of the house's internet provider didn't allow access to those sites.
In fact, trying to access any gun site, or gun-related items, came up empty.
Good thing that the 'censoring' of gun info prevents gun crimes in London.
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