{"id":360155,"date":"2018-05-07T22:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/london-rocked-by-violence-on-holiday-weekend\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:26:59","slug":"london-rocked-by-violence-on-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/london-rocked-by-violence-on-holiday-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"London Rocked by Violence on Holiday Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A spate of shootings and stabbings in London has prompted additional police patrols on the capital\u2019s streets over the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, 17, was fatally shot on Warham Street, south London on Saturday. The attack took place in daylight, just after 6pm, and police are appealing for information.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, a 15-year-old was shot in the head with shotgun pellets in Wealdstone, north-west London, Harrow Police said. Another teenager, aged 13, was found with a wound to the head on the same street minutes later. He had been walking with his parents at the time of the attack and has since been discharged from hospital. A man was arrested on Sunday in connection with the two Harrow attacks and has been released \u201cunder investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would appear that the first victim was approached by two male suspects, one in possession of a shotgun \u2013 and shots were fired, injuring him and an entirely innocent member of the public,\u201d Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Rose said.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, a 22-year-old man was found with gunshot wounds in New Cross Road, south-east London. He was taken to hospital and his condition is not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a 43-year-old man was stabbed in Perivale on Sunday, and two men in their 20s were injured in a suspected acid attack in Shacklewell Lane, Hackney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe violence used has rightly caused concern and we are doing all we can to address this,\u201d\u00a0DCS Simon Messinger\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.met.police.uk\/news\/renewed-appeal-for-witnesses-following-southwark-murder-305470\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/shootings-stabbings-and-acid-attack-london-rocked-by-violence-on-holiday-weekend\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of shootings and stabbings in London has prompted additional police patrols on the capital\u2019s streets over the bank holiday weekend. Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, 17, was fatally shot on Warham Street, south London on Saturday. The attack took place in daylight, just after 6pm, and police are appealing for information. The following day, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}