{"id":701012,"date":"2026-01-17T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/701012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:50:17","slug":"road-cordoned-off-after-town-centre-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/701012\/","title":{"rendered":"Road cordoned off after town centre shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency services, including armed police, were called to Urmston earlier tonight<\/p>\n

22:56, 16 Jan 2026Updated 23:33, 16 Jan 2026<\/p>\n

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Police at the scene(Image: ASP)<\/p>\n

A person has been treated for serious injuries following a shooting<\/a> in Trafford<\/a> tonight. Emergency services, including armed police, were called to Higher Road in Urmston<\/a> around 8.40pm.<\/p>\n

A stretch of the road, near Urmston railway station, remains cordoned off and extra police patrol have been deployed in the area while the investigation continues. One witness described seeing a ripped puffa jacket on the pavement inside the cordon.<\/p>\n

They said: “It looks like there’s a coat or a jacket of some kind, there’s an ambulance right in front of it, a first response. It looks like the feathers or whatever it is inside the padding is all over the road so someone must have been treated.”<\/p>\n

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Emergency services at the scene(Image: ASP)<\/p>\n

A GMP spokesperson said: “At around 8.42pm this evening, we were called to reports of a firearms discharge on Higher Road, Urmston. Emergency services have treated one casualty at the scene with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

“A scene is in place and Higher Road remains closed off to the public. Extra patrols have been deployed around the local area while we continue our enquiries.”<\/p>\n

If you have any information, CCTV or dashcam footage that could assist the investigation, you can contact GMP on 101 quoting log 3132 of 16\/01\/2026<\/p>\n

You can also report information via LiveChat on www.gmp.police.uk<\/a> or through the independent charity Crimestoppers – anonymously \u2013 on 0800 555 111<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services, including armed police, were called to Urmston earlier tonight 22:56, 16 Jan 2026Updated 23:33, 16 Jan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,2465,1289,16,15,81053],"class_list":{"0":"post-701012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-trafford","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-urmston"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115907698905359379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701012","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=701012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}