Gun cops swoop on church attack shooting suspect
ThIS is the dramatic moment armed police arrested a suspect over the church shooting that left a girl of seven fighting for her life.
Video footage shows officers removing the man from a Kia Nero, having forced the vehicle off the road using unmarked cars.
The arrest came on Sunday, a day after the gun attack on a crowd of mourners near euston station, central London.
The little girl was among six hit by a gunman who opened fire from a car as guests left a memorial service at a church opposite the station.
The footage shared with the Mail shows the three highpowered police cars boxing in the Nero hybrid vehicle, thought to be a taxi, before ten armed police swoop.
half of the officers remove the driver from the car and pin him to the ground while their colleagues point their weapons at the front-seat passenger.
The police can be heard shouting ‘get on the ground’ as they bring the 22-year-old suspect to the floor.
A witness to the police operation in Cricklewood Lane, in the Childs hill area of north London, said: ‘They smashed into my car, I think it’s going to be written off.
‘They blocked the car in at the front, side and back. right into my BMW that was parked on the side of the road.
Armed police were pointing their guns into the car.’ An employee at the nearby Junction Cafe who witnessed the arrest said: ‘There were a lot of police, armed police, they boxed the guy’s car in, just out here by the cafe.
‘ I saw one man arrested. There was another man, but he wasn’t taken away in the van. The windows of the car were all smashed up.’ Police confirmed a man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and taken into custody shortly before 4pm on Sunday.
The previous day officers were called to euston’s St Aloysius Church where a memorial service was taking place for a young woman and her mother. Scotland Yard said shotgun pellets were fired from a black Toyota C-hr as hundreds gathered outside the church to watch white doves of peace being released.
Four women and two children were injured in the attack, with the youngest – the girl of seven – left in a life-threatening condition.
The service was being held for Fresia Calderon, 50, and Sara Sanchez, 20.
Ms Sanchez suffered from leukaemia for three years before succumbing to the disease after her mother died from a blood clot on arriving at heathrow from Colombia.
Mrs Calderon was the wife of Carlos Arturo Sanchez-Coronado, who was convicted of working with a British drugs gang to launder cash linked to the operations of the feared Colombian Cali Cartel.
he was jailed in 2009 and is believed to have died last year aged 56 after returning to South America.
Police have not disclosed any possible motive for Saturday’s drive-by shooting.
‘Windows were smashed up’