The shooting occurred at a private event at a nightclub in London’s posh West End on Boxing Day in 2013. It was after 3 a.m., but the DJ was still spinning when the shots erupted, sending the partygoers fleeing. In the aftermath, a 31 year old man, Hassan Mohamed Omer Isman, was dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
Metropolitan police cordoned off the club’s entrance with metal barricades and crime scene tape. Shooting homicides are a relative rarity in London compared to major metropolitan cities in the United States, with fewer than 100 incidents per year. Most shootings are tied to criminal gangs, and when they happen investigators comb through crime scenes in hopes of getting illegal guns off the streets in a country that has done a remarkable job curbing gun violence.
The crime scene at the tacky Avalon club, “a revitalized venue,” its website boasted, “that oozes creativity and class,” appeared unexceptional— it was the perfect place for alcohol and bad blood to spill over into violence.
from Hacker News https://ift.tt/WUBEHZP
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