{"id":281414,"date":"2025-07-22T03:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281414\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:07:30","slug":"school-lockdown-as-gunshots-fired-near-tipton-primary-on-last-day-of-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281414\/","title":{"rendered":"School &#8216;lockdown&#8217; as gunshots fired near Tipton primary on last day of term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents, children and teachers were kept on school grounds after a shooting nearby in Sandgate Road<\/p>\n<p>18:57, 21 Jul 2025Updated 19:00, 21 Jul 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_hotJPG.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Shots were fired close to a school <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A primary school was sent into lockdown after gunshots were fired nearby on the last day of term, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Children, their parents and staff were kept on school grounds at Glebefields Primary School, Tipton as shots were heard during school pick-up time on Friday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police were alerted to the incident in Sandgate Road at around 3.30pm, as parents were in the area to take their kids home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/if-cant-no-one-can-32106262\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more: &#8216;If I can&#8217;t have her no one can&#8217; &#8211; Evil thug killed ex over new boyfriend<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Fortunately, no one was injured but due to the close proximity to the children, police told those at the school to stay on the grounds while they carried out enquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No one had yet been arrested as of Monday, July 21 and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> is appealing for information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The full appeal read: &#8220;We are investigating after reports of shots being fired in Tipton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We were called to a report of a firearms discharge at around 3.30pm on Friday afternoon in Sandgate Road. Thankfully no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Because the location of the report was close to a nearby school: parents, staff and students were kept on school grounds while our officers carried out their enquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Since the incident, officers have been in the local area investigating and gathering evidence, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They appealed for help, adding: &#8220;We&#8217;re keen to hear from anyone who was in the area and might have seen what happened, as well as anyone who has doorbell or dashcam footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Anyone with more information can contact us via 101 quoting log 3576 of 18 July.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents, children and teachers were kept on school grounds after a shooting nearby in Sandgate Road 18:57, 21&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-281414","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114894683755186375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281414","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=281414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}