The man called the Met Police around 8pm last night to tell them that he wanted to take his own life and that he was in possession of loaded guns, according to a police statement.
Officers rushed to his address in Weston Green, Dagenham, and tried to talk to the man, believed to be in his 40s, in order to 'bring the incident to a safe conclusion'. Police contacted a specialist negotiator and continued efforts to engage with the man before shots were fired by officers just before 9pm.
Being The 'Nam, I guess police rightly weren't going to
assume he was bluffing...
While the investigation is in its early stages, the Met Police has already revealed that a non-police firearm was found at the scene.
Shouldn't be a long investigation, should it?
The Met's Directorate of Professional Standards was made aware immediately after the incident and the Independent Office for Police Conduct has been informed.
Even for
them.
Let's hope he is the correct colour or else the "yoot" will be queueing up for new trainers and flat screen TV's to help them cope with this tragedy.
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Perhaps we should wait for the full story?
ReplyDeletePerhaps he aimed the gun at Police officers, in order to commit suicide by being shot by Police, rather than shooting himself? Perhaps he wasn't in the library, with a glass of good Scotch, and the gun wasn't a Webley?
We just don't know at this stage.
Penseivat
"Let's hope he is the correct colour or else the "yoot" will be queueing up for new trainers and flat screen TV's to help them cope with this tragedy."
ReplyDeleteWe have a few more details now - he was a Lituanian with mental illness, and he claimed to have found one of the guns he threatened to use 'in a shed'...🤷♀️
"Perhaps we should wait for the full story?
Perhaps he aimed the gun at Police officer..."
That's the only reason they would have felt they had to shoot, despite the bafflement of some of the idiots commenting about it on Facebook.
You'll no doubt not be surprised to find 'why couldn't they have shot him with tranquillisers?' making an appearance often in the threads...🙄