Woman shot and killed in east London

A 42-year-old woman was fatally shot in east London on Tuesday evening in a rare fatal shooting, authorities said.

Police found three people with gunshot wounds. The woman, whose name has not been released, died at the scene. A 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were taken to a hospital where their conditions are being assessed, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. press release.

The shooting took place in the Hackney district around 6:30 PM local time. No arrests have been made.

Recordings, and guns are much less common in British cities than in the United States. There were only nine homicides involving firearms London in 2022. By comparison, Houston, a city with less than a quarter of London’s population, saw 401 gun homicides in 2021, according to an analysis of FBI data by the gun control group. Every city.

Firearms are strictly regulated in the United Kingdom. Residents must obtain a permit from the police if they want to own a gun. Certain types of weapons are completely prohibited. For example, Parliament eventually banned it pistols after 1996 The Dunblane Massacrea deadly school shooting that left sixteen schoolchildren and one teacher dead.

The investigation is still in its “early stages”, Detective Chief Inspector Vicky Tunstall, of the local police team in Hackney, said in a statement.

“I do not underestimate the impact this incident will have on the people of Hackney and I understand that the community wants answers about what happened tonight. We will share further information as our investigation progresses,” she said.

“Gun crime has no place on the streets of London and we will do everything we can to bring whoever is responsible for this despicable crime to justice.”

According to British newspaper The Guardian, 28 homicide victims will have died from shootings across England and Wales in 2022 Office for National Statistics.