Four people face charges after a gun was fired during a fight near Richmond Row in the city’s third case of gunfire this month.
Four people face charges after a gun was fired during a fight on Richmond Row in the city’s third case of gunfire this month.
London police were called around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday to a report of a fight involving a person armed with a gun near Richmond and Kent streets. Officers found evidence of gunfire at the scene, police said Wednesday.
officers located a vehicle and the occupants ran away, but they were arrested a short time later. An officer was assaulted by another person while arresting one of the suspects, police said, adding the officer wasn’t injured.
Investigators recovered a gun. Court records say the weapon involved in the shooting was a handgun.
A 19-year-old London man is charged with discharging a firearm, possession of a firearm without a licence, careless storage of a firearm, occupying a vehicle with a firearm and possession of a firearm contrary to a probation order.
Two London men, aged 19 and 20, are each charged with occupying a vehicle with a firearm and failing to comply with an undertaking.
A 19-year-old London woman is charged with assaulting a peace officer and obstructing a peace officer. Court records show the woman is already facing a charge of assault with a weapon for an alleged attack on a man on Oct. 15.
All four of the accused appeared Tuesday in court, where the three men were remanded in custody and scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. The woman was released from custody and scheduled to appear in court on June 8.
This is the fifth case of gunfire this year in London and the third time shots have been fired in public this month.
Most recently, officers called to a complex at 253 Taylor St., southeast of Adelaide and Huron streets, on April 19 found shell casings and minor property damage, police said. Nobody was injured.
That incident came less than three weeks after an occupant of a vehicle driving on Highbury Avenue near Commissioners Road fired shots out the vehicle window on April 2. Two 19-year-old women were charged with occupying a motor vehicle with a firearm.
Last year, London police created a gun task force in response to a surge of gunfire in the city. The now-disbanded task force — made up of investigators, crime analysts and front-line officers — cost $287,166, according to report presented to the police board last month.