{"id":173827,"date":"2025-06-10T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173827\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:25:13","slug":"gunman-who-fired-recklessly-in-birmingham-street-is-jailed-for-nearly-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173827\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman who fired recklessly in Birmingham street is jailed for nearly 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kye Lemathy was jailed last Tuesday (June 3) for his involvement in disorder which took place at the junction of Witton Road and Endicott Road, on 12 October 2024.<\/p>\n

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Police were called to the scene \u00a0just after 7.45pm on the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those involved had already left, but police investigators found evidence that a gun had been fired.<\/p>\n

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

CCTV images showed the disorder taking place and Lemathy recklessly shooting his gun, despite pedestrians walking by.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At one point, the man he appears to be aiming at held a passer-by as a \u2018human shield\u2019 to prevent Lemathy firing again.<\/p>\n

Detectives found the 21-year-old was involved in the disorder and fired the gun. After he was discharged from hospital, he was arrested and questioned.<\/p>\n

After pleading guilty to possession of a firearm with intent at Birmingham Crown Court in April, Lemathy, of Holte Road, Perry Barr, was jailed \u00a0last week for nine years and nine months.<\/p>\n

A West Midlands Police<\/a> spokesman said: “His jailing is part of the success of Operation Target<\/a>, which sees police work 24\/7 to disrupt and arrest serious and organised crime.<\/p>\n

“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":"Kye Lemathy was jailed last Tuesday (June 3) for his involvement in disorder which took place at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-173827","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-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114660948294460280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173827","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=173827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}