{"id":173486,"date":"2025-06-10T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173486\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:25:12","slug":"chilling-footage-shows-birmingham-shooting-target-use-passer-by-as-a-human-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173486\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling footage shows Birmingham shooting ‘target’ use passer-by as a human shield"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the shocking footage of a man grabbing a passer-by to stop a gunman firing at him during disorder in Aston.<\/p>\n

Key Lemathy was caught on camera recklessly firing a gun when a fight broke out a the junction of Witton Road and Endicott Road, despite pedestrians walking around.<\/p>\n

Yellow flashes can be seen and loud bangs heard as he shoots outside takeaways and businesses during the evening of October 12, last year.<\/p>\n

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Chillingly, Lemarthy’s target grabs an innocent passer-by and uses his body as a ‘human shield’ in an attempt to stop him from firing at him.<\/p>\n

The member of the public wrestles free and runs for their life.<\/p>\n

\"Kye<\/p>\n

Kye Lemathy -Credit:West Midlands Police<\/p>\n

Two bicycles can be seen in the middle of the roadway as the footage draws to a close.<\/p>\n

Armed officers were called to just after 7.45pm but those involved had already fled.<\/p>\n

West Midlands Police’s Major Crime Unit launched an investigation and found that Lemathy had himself been stabbed in the disorder and had taken himself to hospital.<\/p>\n

Detectives found that the 21-year-old was involved in the disorder and fired the gun.<\/p>\n

Lemathy, of Holte Road, Perry Barr<\/a>, was promptly arrested after he was discharged from hospital and charged.<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm with intent at Birmingham<\/a> Crown Court in April and was jailed for nine years and nine months.<\/p>\n

The success is part of Operation Target, which focuses on serious and organised crime.<\/p>\n

The force said: “Those involved in guns, drugs, money laundering and exploitation are being brought to justice as part of the operation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the shocking footage of a man grabbing a passer-by to stop a gunman firing at him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,71916,71917,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-173486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-kye-lemathy","13":"tag-shocking-footage","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114660240537896180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}