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Police were called to Ankermoor Close, in Shard End(Image: BirminghamLive)<\/p>\nWest Midlands Police said officers had been deployed to Ankermoor Close, in Shard End, at around 11.40am todayPolice were called to Ankermoor Close, in Shard End(Image: BirminghamLive)<\/p>\n
Armed police raced to the scene of a Birmingham property where a man was tragically found dead.<\/p>\n
West Midlands Police<\/a> said officers had been deployed to Ankermoor Close, in Shard End<\/a>, at around 11.40am today, Monday, December 8.<\/p>\n Residents had earlier seen more than a dozen police vehicles and 20 officers on the normally quiet cul-de-sac. Detectives and forensic officers later attended the property.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Birmingham police probe live after body found in home<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Now the police force has said the man’s death is “not being treated as suspicious”. A file will be prepared for a Birmingham<\/a> and Solihull<\/a> coroner in due course.<\/p>\n A police spokesperson had earlier told BirminghamLive: “We were called to Ankermoor Close, Birmingham, at 11.40am today after the body of a man was found at an address.<\/p>\n “Officers are in the area carrying out enquiries as we try to establish the circumstances around the man’s death.<\/p>\n “Anyone with more information can call 101 quoting log 1911 of December 8.”<\/p>\n A resident who lives a couple of doors away was out walking her dog when was stopped by police and they asked to look at her doorbell camera footage.<\/p>\n She told BirminghamLive: “Nothing goes on. It’s very, very quiet in this road.<\/p>\n To have something drastic like that, it’s quite frightening really.<\/p>\n “You get up in the morning and know your routines and something drastic happens.”<\/p>\n Tom Sangster, 78, from Ankermoor Close said he saw two armed officers, one with a rifle in his hands and another with guns by his side.<\/p>\n He said there was an unmarked black car outside his home with its blue lights on.<\/p>\n “I have been living here since 2008. That’s the first time I have seen anything like it in my time here,” he told BirminghamLive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police said officers had been deployed to Ankermoor Close, in Shard End, at around 11.40am todayPolice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,94105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-621435","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-shard-end","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115687750510207535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621435","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=621435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_cop-scene1JPG.jpg\")
Police and forensic officers on Ankermoor Close, Shard End(Image: Nick Horner\/BirminghamLive)<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_street1JPG.jpg\")
Ankermoor Close in Shard End(Image: BirminghamLive )<\/p>\n