PARTS of Holborn and Covent Garden were this week flooded with officers from Operation Trident – the Metropolitan Police’s black-on-black gun crime unit – hunting for clues following a shooting on Sunday.
A desperate call made to the New Journal’s office early on Sunday by a man claiming to have been at the scene of the attack and pleading for help has been passed to the police.
Police found several spent cartridges in Great Queen Street, Holborn, but no sign of any victim.
A black man in his twenties checked in at King’s College Hospital in Denmark Hill, south London, soon after, suffering from gunshot wounds.
Medics initially feared for his life, but he has since been released.
A spokesman for Browns club in Great Queen Street – outside which a man was murdered in 2002 – said: “This incident did not take place on the premises nor was it in any way connected with them. The police also accept this incident was in no way connected to Browns.”
Lucy Cope, whose son was murdered in the 2002 attack, says her group, Mothers Against Guns, will protest in Great Queen Street unless security in the area is tightened.