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cerv2005
25-09-2006, 07:07
Can't find a link at the mo but it happened earlier this morning apparently. 2 people injured, one outside the club and one inside. Around 60 people were in there at the time. Shocking.
After the bust a few months ago I guess this could be the end of the road for the venue?
Sadly someone else has been shot and killed in a separate night-club shooting in Kings Cross. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5376710.stm
Was it really neccessary to block all traffic coming down Brixton Hill??
Was a nightmare trying to get in to work today :(
tarannau
25-09-2006, 07:32
Ah, so that's why the whole of the area and Acre Lane was cordoned off this morning. Typically I had got up to go to work early and all the buses to Clapham were on a mystery diversion, stop to catch them from unknown.
Sadly I suspected something had gone on at The Fridge. But a double shooting's worse than I expected. Fingers crossed that this incident isn't inflated to cause the end of the place.
brixton hill is currently completely solid going south and empty going north with LOADS of people walking down.
It was really strange walking down the hill, really quiet, apart from one woman who was ranting about the police closing the hill all the way down. She got to the bottom of the hill and started to have a go at the police only to be told that people had been shot, she shut up quite quickly.
:rolleyes:
tarannau
25-09-2006, 08:11
I know they need to preserve the crime scene, but the area covered seems particularly huge. Here's hoping they find something particularly incriminating and/or useful from all that effort.
Christchurch Road was closed off yesterday evening too, with the traffic from Streatham even worse than usual as a result.
People, this was a fatal shooting. Puting a cordon around the crime scene seems reasonable enough
gaijingirl
25-09-2006, 08:46
People, this was a fatal shooting.
Was it? :(
Two have been taken to hospital, thats all anyone seemed to know when I was walking past earlier. It wouldn't surprise me if it did end up fatal though.
ETA: Just read the BBC news story, looks like it was fatal. :(
People, this was a fatal shooting. Puting a cordon around the crime scene seems reasonable enough
how do you know that??
and i dont think anybody was saying it was unreasonable.
Currently the only people I can find carrying this at the momnet are National News by way of UK Lifestyle (http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=DA2529358V&news_headline=double_shooting_at_south_london_nightclub) if you will. <rolleyes>
Currently the only people I can find carrying this at the momnet are National News by way of UK Lifestyle (http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=DA2529358V&news_headline=double_shooting_at_south_london_nightclub) if you will. <rolleyes>
The BBC are carrying the Scala shooting...
:confused: Yeah, I saw the BBC but this was the Fridge shooting on the fridge shooting thread?.
Double shooting at south London nightclub
Life Style Extra, UK - 1 hour ago
Two men are in hospital, one in a serious condition, after a shooting at the Fridge nightclub in Brixton. Around 60 people were ...
The article now appears to have been pulled. :confused:
gaijingirl
25-09-2006, 09:24
:confused: Yeah, I saw the BBC but this was the Fridge shooting on the fridge shooting thread?.
The article now appears to have been pulled. :confused:
That's not good.. I hope it's not because circumstances have changed. :(
My apologies, I read a poorly written article which implied that there had been a fatal shooting at Scala and another fatal shooting at the Fridge. It would seem that the two men shot at the Fridge are in a serious condition, but still alive. :o
The beeb seem to have taken down the article which gave all the relevent info and replaced it with a very confusing one mostly about a shooting 6 weeks ago :confused:
Dubversion
25-09-2006, 10:59
it's all over the radio, especially Feltz's show. So i could listen to morons explain what we should do about youth crime during my 2 hour journey to work this morning :(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5376710.stm
kidtripod
25-09-2006, 11:04
The thing on the BBC about the police having an "open mind" about it is kind of curious, whereas the whole gun squad thing descends on the one in Kings Cross.
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=GE2529364Y&news_headline=probe_as_two_men_shot_outside_nightclub
detective-boy
25-09-2006, 17:04
The thing on the BBC about the police having an "open mind" about it is kind of curious, whereas the whole gun squad thing descends on the one in Kings Cross.
Couldn't see the "open mind" comment, but it was probably made in response to a speculative "Why did this person get shot?" or "We have heard this was an argument over drugs" type question from a reporter. Investigative Good Practice requires a senior investigating officer to keep an open mind and to consider all possible hypotheses until the evidence excludes them. "I am keeping an open mind" is therefore a pretty bog standard comment, at least in the early days, because anything else could / would later come back to bite them at trial when defence counsel stands up and says "Ah, DCI Detective-Boy. You tell the jury you kept an open mind about the motive but perhaps you'd like to watch this clip from the BBC News ..."
As for the extent of the crime scene: (a) a non-fatal shooting is usually treated in exactly the same way as a fatal one - it is a matter of chance rather than design whether or not someone dies. and (b) a shooting crime scene (I believe the Brixton one was in the street) is inevitably large as bullets (and even bullet cases from automatic weapons) fly a long way (even before you factor in any movement of suspect / victims, escape routes, etc., etc.). It would not be at all unusual for a whole road width to be secured initially. It is not possible to search it properly during the hours of darkness (it is hard enough in daylight) and there tend to be limited resources (e.g. any specialist firearms scientists to reconstruct trajectories, etc. to establish exact positions) available outside ordinary hours (and they also work far better in daylight). Sorry, but the standard of crime scene examination required by the courts will inevitably lead to significant road closures.
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CharlieAddict
26-09-2006, 17:21
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200southlondonheadlines/tm_objectid=17817087&method=full&siteid=50100&headline=-traid--revenge-attack-outside-nightclub-name_page.html
don't know what's going on? just blame it on the triads. be the yakuza and mafia next.
RushcroftRoader
28-09-2006, 16:15
The two victims were Vietnamese. They had got into an "altercation" within the Fridge which then led to the shootings outside the Fridge. One of the victims lost an eye, while the other lost a lung. Both shootings took place outside the Fridge, not inside, as had been reported in some quarters.
The Fridge could now lose its licence if CCTV footage shows that bouncers were not carrying out searches on everyone entering the club.
The club had serious licensing requirements placed on it following the big raid earlier in the summer and another breach of conditions now could be curtains for its prospects.
It seems a pity, and somewhat unfair to everyone else, for one of London's larger clubs to get closed down just because a couple of assholes shoot each other.
Why do these assholes want to kill each other?
Its usually pathetic, petty reasons, petty squabbles over money and "respect". Ah well, think of it as evolution in action!
I can just imagine these people getting ready for their night out: mental checklist: money, wallet, travelcard, house keys, GUN! :confused: :confused:
Giles..
boozybirdie
29-09-2006, 09:07
They didn't have the weapons in the club, when they got kicked out they went to their cars and got the guns and knifes.
They didn't have the weapons in the club, when they got kicked out they went to their cars and got the guns and knifes.
Good. That should be OK for the Fridge then.
Giles..
superdoopa
29-09-2006, 10:31
apparently one of the guys shot was nothing to do with the fight - just stepped in to help translate for the bouncer...
dark..
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