‘I thought it was an America thing’ – shock on ‘peaceful’ Sheffield street after daylight shooting
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Newly added coverage includes residents’ accounts of how the shooting affected them, including one neighbour’s concern about the wait for police to arrive. People who live on Elmham Road described the street as peaceful and said the daylight gunfire left them shaken; no injuries were reported.
South Yorkshire Police say the firearm was discharged at a property between 10.30am and 11am on Saturday, 3 October. Officers believe a silver car, thought to be a Mercedes, stopped at the location, a male passenger fired at the property, then left in the car; police are seeking suspects and will maintain extra patrols in Darnall over the weekend.
- Residents say the shooting shook a normally peaceful street.
- No one was injured in the daylight firearms discharge.
- Police are seeking suspects and increasing patrols.
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Darnall is an area in the east of Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire. Elmham Road is a residential street, and residents described it as peaceful before the shooting.
South Yorkshire Police is the force responsible for policing the area. In reports of gunfire at a home, investigators seek to establish what happened and identify those involved; police have asked witnesses or anyone with information to contact them. No one was injured in this incident.