Horrifying pictures of the scene of a shooting in Brixton which left two dead show forensic tents and debris strewn across the road.
A takeaway delivery driver is one of two men who died in the double shooting in Railton Road just before 8pm on Sunday evening (October 30) where locals heard shots ring out and vehicles crashing.
White forensic tents had been put up at the scene on Monday, and debris can be seen on the road.
There were two crashed vehicles – a silver car which had lost one of its tyres and a moped.
A 322 bus was left parked within the police cordon.
On Monday, a Deliveroo driver working near the scene said he knew one of the victims, who had been making his last delivery of the day when he died.
Paulo Silva, 42, described him as a “good boy” and “young” and said he had been planning to go to Brazil in December.
The Metropolitan Police has not yet confirmed the identities of those who died.
The latest violence means four people have been killed in two shootings in five days in the English capital, after a separate incident in Ilford, east London on Tuesday that left two men dead and a third injured.
This follows a spate of shootings in July which saw three men die in separate attacks in six days.
Before those killings, up until July 19 this year, there had been no firearms deaths in the English capital since October 31 2021.
In the whole of 2021, there were 12 fatal shootings among a total of 134 homicides recorded by the Metropolitan Police.
And in April the force said it had seen a reduction in gun crime, with the number of all shootings, including fatal and non-fatal, down from 283 in 2019/20 to 196 in 2021/22.
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