{"id":92912,"date":"2025-05-11T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92912\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:17:09","slug":"gunshots-on-birmingham-street-as-police-issue-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92912\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunshots on Birmingham street as police issue appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happened on Hooper Street at around 3.30am today, Sunday, May 11<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_hooper1JPG.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A general view of Hooper Street in Birmingham(Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">West Midlands Police officers are probing reports of gunshots on a Birmingham street in the early hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It happened on Hooper Street, at around 3.30am, today, Sunday, May 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The force said no-one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/broad-street-blocked-fire-engines-31616475\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Broad Street blocked by fire engines in early-morning fire drama<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/met-office-forecast-birmingham-thunderstorms-31617075\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Met Office forecast Birmingham thunderstorms tomorrow amid yellow weather warning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/black-country\/walsall-brothel-busted-police-arrest-31612184\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Walsall brothel busted as police arrest 20 in organised crime operation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/forever-15-tribute-biker-killed-31612945\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Forever 15&#8217; tribute to biker killed in Redditch crash as crowdfunder closes in on \u00a34k<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The investigation remained ongoing to establish what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police appealed for witnesses or anyone with footage to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a statement, police said today: &#8220;We are investigating after gunshots were heard at around 3.30am this morning in Hooper Street, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a>, <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Thankfully no-one was injured and no damage was caused to any buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We are conducting enquiries as part of our investigation such as speaking to witnesses and reviewing CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Anyone with any information, specifically any dash cam, mobile phone or CCTV footage is asked to contact us via Live Chat on our website or call 101 quoting 534 of today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Alternatively, to give information anonymously, contact independent charity Crimestoppers on: 0800 555 111.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It happened on Hooper Street at around 3.30am today, Sunday, May 11A general view of Hooper Street in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[983,12,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-92912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114489632072669037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92912","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=92912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}