{"id":27949,"date":"2026-05-04T01:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/27949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:22:53","slug":"police-investigating-whether-stabbing-and-shooting-in-south-london-are-linked-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/27949\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating whether stabbing and shooting in south London are linked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are investigating the possibility that the stabbing of a man and the shooting of four people in the same area of south London are linked.<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Police officers were called at 1.14am on Saturday to reports of shots fired from a vehicle in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, and at 2.17am to reports of a stabbing in nearby Acre Lane.<\/p>\n

Four people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds following the Coldharbour Lane incident, including a 25-year-old man who remains in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n

\"Forensic<\/p>\n

Forensic officers near the scene of the shooting (Clara Margotin\/PA)<\/p>\n

Three others \u2013 aged 21, 47 and 70 \u2013 were also taken to hospital with injuries assessed as not life threatening or life changing.<\/p>\n

Some 700 metres away in Acre Lane, a 33-year-old man was found with multiple stab wounds and taken to hospital where he remains in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made yet in connection with either event.<\/p>\n

Officers are investigating the possibility that the two incidents are linked, the Met said.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information or footage is urged to contact the police or Crimestoppers quoting reference CAD 557\/2May for the Coldharbour Lane shooting and quoting CAD 907\/2May for the Acre Lane stabbing.<\/p>\n

Several police officers could be seen searching an area of grass outside the Southwyck House estate, on Coldharbour Lane, on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police searching near the scene (Clara Margotin\/PA)<\/p>\n

An estate resident said he believed the incident took place during a barbecue party on the patch of green, while a shop worker told of providing shelter to people in the wake of gunshots.<\/p>\n

Moh John, 45, who works at supermarket Payless Food & Wine outside Southwyck House estate, told the Press Association: \u201cI was putting something there and I heard the noises.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was busy, there was a party. I saw the people run away.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then I saw the people, some people try to come in the shop and I locked the door.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said those rushing inside the supermarket were \u201cscared\u201d, adding he kept the front door locked for \u201csome time\u201d before he reopened it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert, 40, who did not want to give his surname, said he did not see the incident as he was inside all night but told PA: \u201cI think it happened at the barbecue. It was packed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI usually feel safe around here, people know each other and get on. There\u2019s been a few stabbings, and one day one gun was caught, but I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s ever been shot like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the possibility that the stabbing of a man and the shooting of four people in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[12320,12317,12319,27,12318],"class_list":{"0":"post-27949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-acre-lane","9":"tag-coldharbour-lane","10":"tag-gunshot-wounds","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-metropolitan-police-officers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116513695545299324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}