{"id":24116,"date":"2025-04-16T07:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24116\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:04:13","slug":"you-could-see-bullet-holes-eyewitness-reacts-to-halesowen-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24116\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You could see bullet holes&#8217;: Eyewitness reacts to Halesowen shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An eye witness to a shooting at a block of flats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/dudley\/halesowen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halesowen<\/a> overnight said the scene was &#8216;chaotic&#8217; and compared it to a Hollywood movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> are still investigating after the disorder at Bredon Court, off Andrew Road near Halesowen town-centre around 11.15pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20dce94a-23d7-4bf1-a798-0f36e4766028.jpg\"   alt=\"Bullet holes were left in the walls after a car was shot at in Bredon Court, Halesowen\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Bullet holes were left in the walls after a car was shot at in Bredon Court, Halesowen<\/p>\n<p>The man, who is remaining anonymous, said he watched from the window of his fourth floor flat as his car was &#8216;written off&#8217; by a driver who was trying to find his way out of the car park following the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>He said the drama started when a group of people arrived on electric bikes and he and his children were then woken up by what sounded like &#8216;fireworks,&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I watched my car getting smashed into, as well as two others, one of the neighbours I know quite well she lost her car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are only eight spaces for about 40 flats and there were cars parked all over the place, the driver was careering into vehicles it was like something out of a movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We pretty much saw it all unfold including the shooting into the wall and you can still see the bullet holes this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been her six months and it&#8217;s probably not the best place to bring up kids though in that time I haven&#8217;t seen anything like this, anti-social behaviour with groups of lads yes but not any shooting incidents or damage to cars to this extent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4aeedc3c-81a4-4061-880e-85f9086cccbc.jpg\"   alt=\"Debris at the scene of the incident iN Bredon Court, Halesowen where three cars were written off and shots fired\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Debris at the scene of the incident iN Bredon Court, Halesowen where three cars were written off and shots fired<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> confirmed a cordon around the flats had now been removed but they were still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re investigating after gun shots were fired in Bredon Court, Halesowen, at around 11.15pm yesterday (14 April).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damage was caused to a vehicle but no-one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re carrying out enquiries in the area &#8211; including reviewing CCTV possibilities &#8211; as we seek to establish exactly what happened and who was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve increased patrols in the area to provide extra reassurance.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact us via Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101, and quoting 20\/208112\/25.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An eye witness to a shooting at a block of flats in Halesowen overnight said the scene was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,1354,393,4884,14987,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-24116","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-dudley","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-halesowen","15":"tag-local-hubs","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114346371590242238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24116","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=24116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}