South Yorkshire Police<\/a> said officers were called to Wilfred Drive, in the Darnall area of the city, just before midnight following reports a man had been shot in the chest.<\/p>\nThe 20-year-old is in a critical condition in hospital and people living in the area described how prayers were said for him at the mosque across the road at Friday lunchtime.<\/p>\n
One man who lives near the scene said: \u201cIt\u2019s such a shock. Nobody deserves this to happen to them, whatever he has got himself mixed-up in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a safe place. You can go about your business, no problem. But things just get out o hand with disagreements. I don\u2019t understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Friday afternoon, Wilfred Drive remained behind a police cordon, along with a 100m stretch of Wilfrid Road, with police cars guarding either end of the scene, which is just off the busy Staniforth Road.<\/p>\n
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Four men \u2013 aged 20, 22, 28 and 29 \u2013 were all arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remain in custody (Dave Higgens\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n
A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said on Friday: \u201cOn Christmas Day, just before midnight at 11.27pm, emergency services responded to Wilfred Drive in Darnall after a 20-year-old man was reported to have been shot in his chest.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim was taken to hospital, where he remains in a critical, life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing the incident, detectives immediately began working at pace to understand the circumstances and quickly had four men arrested in connection to the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
The spokesman said four men \u2013 aged 20, 22, 28 and 29 \u2013 were all arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remain in custody.<\/p>\n
Chief Inspector Andy Knowles said: \u201cThis is an abhorrent incident that has left a man fighting for his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cGun crime poses a great threat to the safety and wellbeing of our community, putting innocent people at risk of being caught up in an offender\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will not be tolerated under any circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are committed to taking firm, decisive action against anyone who chooses to engage in violence or carry illegal firearms, but we are stronger with your help \u2013 our communities support.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thankful to those who have assisted officers so far in our inquiries and urge anyone who believes they have footage or information to assist to get in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n
The senior officer said police would remain in the area to deal with questions or concerns from the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-656319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115787187411265693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656319","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=656319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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