Car plea after shooting.A 22-YEAR-OLD man remains on bail as police continue to investigate the drive-by shooting of a Coventry man in a residential street. The city man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a 25-year-old man was blasted in the stomach with a shotgun on Sunday, May 24, over the Bank Holiday weekend. The suspect was quizzed by detectives based at Chace Avenue police station in Willenhall before being released, pending further inquiries. The 25-year-old victim was walking along The Boxhill, Stoke Aldermoor at about 8.30pm when a silver/grey Vauxhall Zafira pulled up alongside and a shotgun was fired, hitting the man in the stomach. The car then sped off towards Siddeley Avenue. The victim's injuries are described by police as "non-life-threatening". Police found the car abandoned and on fire in Alliance Way, Stoke Heath, at about 9.45 that evening. The Zafira had false plates with the number NJ06 VBL VBL Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder (Occupational pension, Germany) VBL Verband Bayerischer Lokalrundfunk (Germany) VBL Vertical Bloch Line (Memory Device) . Police discovered Its genuine registration was KG56 DFV DFV Double Four Valve (Cosworth) DFV Design For Verification DFV Deutscher Fußball Verband (German Soccer Association) DFV Deutschen Fibromyalgie Vereinigung Ev (Seckach, Germany) and that the car had been stolen just over two weeks previously from Lutterworth, near Rugby. Police are appealing for anyone who saw the Zafira between May 8 and 24 to contact them. Chace Avenue detectives can be contacted by calling West Midlands Police West Midlands Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second largest in the United Kingdom after London's Metropolitan Police [1]. It covers an area with nearly 2. on 0845 113 5000 or information can be left in confidence on the Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555 111. |
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