Boy, 11, suffers horrific wounds after being shot in east London - national

AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy has suffered life-changing after being shot last night, police have said.
By Tom Cotterill
Published 2nd May 2020, 10:17 BST
Updated 2nd May 2020, 10:19 BST
Police at the scene in Kerry Drive, Upminster, East London, where an 11-year-old boy was shot on Friday evening, suffering possibly life-changing injuries. Photo: Tom Pilgrim/PA WirePolice at the scene in Kerry Drive, Upminster, East London, where an 11-year-old boy was shot on Friday evening, suffering possibly life-changing injuries. Photo: Tom Pilgrim/PA Wire
Police at the scene in Kerry Drive, Upminster, East London, where an 11-year-old boy was shot on Friday evening, suffering possibly life-changing injuries. Photo: Tom Pilgrim/PA Wire

Officers were called to an address in Kerry Drive, Upminster, east London on Friday evening and found two people with injuries – the boy and a man believed to be in his 40s.

Metropolitan Police say both were taken to hospital, with the boy's condition listed as not life-threatening but possibly life-changing.

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The condition of the man has been assessed as not life-threatening or life-changing.

Police at the scene in Kerry Drive, Upminster, East London, where an 11-year-old boy was shot on Friday evening, suffering possibly life-changing injuries. Photo: Tom Pilgrim/PA WirePolice at the scene in Kerry Drive, Upminster, East London, where an 11-year-old boy was shot on Friday evening, suffering possibly life-changing injuries. Photo: Tom Pilgrim/PA Wire
Police at the scene in Kerry Drive, Upminster, East London, where an 11-year-old boy was shot on Friday evening, suffering possibly life-changing injuries. Photo: Tom Pilgrim/PA Wire

On Saturday morning police officers were putting up tape close to the address in Upminster, where the boy and man were found injured on Friday.

Police were checking if people were local residents before allowing them under the cordon running across the top of Kerry Drive and on Limerick Gardens.

Uniformed officers stood by a single police car parked across the middle of Limerick Gardens.

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A 53-year-old local resident said she was ‘pretty shocked’ by the incident.

The woman, who gave her name as Sharon and was speaking while walking her dogs on Saturday morning, said: ‘It's not the sort of area that this goes on. This is a really, really quiet, lovely area. I know all my neighbours up and down on this road.’

She said she knew the boy's family only ‘to say hello to’.

Commenting on the incident, she added: ‘It doesn't happen in this road. This is a leafy suburb. People walk their dogs, people come here for a quiet life.’