A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a shooting on Saturday January 14 outside a church in north London in which a 7-year-old girl was seriously injured, police said on Monday.
This shooting took place in the early afternoon of Saturday outside a church, after a mass in tribute to a mother and a daughter who died in November, in the district of Euston, in the north of the British capital .
Shots rang out as mourners gathered outside the church after the ceremony.
Six injured
The shots were fired from a moving vehicle, according to the first elements of the investigation.
Six people were injured, including a 7-year-old girl, who remains in hospital in serious but stable condition.
The man, who was arrested on Sunday January 15, was taken into custody.
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I heard this loud bang and thought it wasn't normal, and the next minute everyone was screaming and screaming
," a neighbor told the PA news agency after the shooting.
The priest in charge of the service, Father Jeremy Trood, explained to PA that it was a mass in homage to Sara Sanchez, 20, and her mother, who died a month apart in November, the first from leukemia and the second from thrombosis.
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