A man has been charged with murder after an ice-cream seller died in London, police said.<\/p>\n
Shazad Khan, 41, was pronounced dead at the scene after officers responded to reports of an altercation in Monks Park, Wembley, at 6.10pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Zaher Zaarour, 26, of Brent, north-west London, has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article, the Metropolitan police said on Thursday. He is due to appear at Willesden magistrates court on Friday.<\/p>\n
A 31-year-old woman who was arrested at the scene on suspicion of conspiracy to murder had been bailed pending further inquiries, the force added.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan police DCI Paul Waller said: \u201cI would like to thank the community for their help and support during this investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cResidents can expect to see an increase of officers in the local area over the next coming days as the investigation continues.\u201d<\/p>\n
One local man told the PA news agency that Khan was \u201cfamous\u201d in the area for selling ice-creams in a van.<\/p>\n
Asim Mahmood Butt, 39, who lives in nearby Tokyngton Avenue, said he was a childhood friendof the victim, who had started selling ice-cream \u201cabout a year ago\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added that Khan was married and had a young daughter.<\/p>\n
The ice-cream van, which had been parked on the road at the time of the incident, was well known locally for having a large teddy bear, Butt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after an ice-cream seller died in London, police said. Shazad Khan,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-362873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115068533214799268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362873","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=362873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}