Boss shot in front of his son; Businessman gunned down in street.Byline: By Mark Cowan A BIRMINGHAM businessman was gunned down in the street in front of his teenage son as he arrived home from work. The 63-year-old married father, named locally as Talib Hussain, was walking towards the front door of the home he shares with his wife and children in Small Heath Small Heath can be:
Police said he slumped to the pavement pavement, the wearing surface of a road, street, or sidewalk. Parts of Babylon and Troy are believed to have been paved; Roman roads were noted for their durable stone paving. Cobblestones were common from late medieval times into the 19th cent. after he was shot a number of times with what was believed to a pistol as his young son looked on in horror. The gunman fled to a waiting car which sped away from the scene as the youngster raised the alarm and comforted his wounded father. The victim, who is believed to run an offlicence, was today in a critical but stable condition in hospital while his anguished family were being comforted by relatives. Detectives said it looked as though he had been specifically targeted. Officers have not yet established a motive for the shooting and were keeping an "open mind" about the shooting, although they do not believe it was a robbery gone wrong. The scene, in Kenelm Road today remained cordoned off by police. Acting Det Chief Insp Simon Vowles, from Stechford CID Cid or Cid Campeador (sĭd, Span. thēth kämpāäthōr`) [Span.,=lord conqueror], d. 1099, Spanish soldier and national hero, whose real name was Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar. appealed for anyone who saw the small dark-coloured getaway car speeding from the scene along Kenelm Road towards Charles Road, or anything else suspicious to come forward. Meanwhile, residents described their shock at the shooting. A neighbour, Arslan Hussain, 20, said: "I heard shots when I was upstairs and came downstairs and ran outside. "I was on the phone to emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' and the ambulance took half an hour to arrive. He was lying on the ground and had wounds to the stomach and leg. His son and nephew NEPHEW, dom. rel. The son of a person's brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob's Ch. R. 207. were there. "I stayed with him until the ambulance arrived and tried to give him first aid." Another neighbour, who asked not to be named, aged 50, said: "Talib Hussain was coming back from work when someone attacked him. "There's a long-standing dispute in the Mipuri community. One of his sons was beaten and there has been trouble down that road in the past. CAPTION(S): Scene of attack: Police in Small Heath today. |
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