{"id":274180,"date":"2025-11-20T19:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274180\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:57:14","slug":"major-police-update-after-two-men-killed-in-double-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274180\/","title":{"rendered":"Major police update after two men killed in double shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old man has been arrested in Birmingham on suspicion of murdering two men in Wolverhampton<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1_syed-zain-ali-wm.jpg\" alt=\"Father-of-three Syed Zain Ali, 32, was killed in the shooting\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Father-of-three Syed Zain Ali, 32, was killed in the shooting(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Police have issued a significant update after two men were murdered in a double shooting on a Wolverhampton street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Duaine Mills, aged 28, and Syed Zain Ali, 32, died after the major incident in Leicester Street at around 3.10am on September 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Today, November 20, police now say they have arrested a man on suspicion of the murders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Read more: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/final-days-sensitive-soul-prisoner-32896167\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Final days of &#8216;sensitive soul&#8217; prisoner found dead at HMP Birmingham as cause of death confirmed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">A 38-year-old man was arrested in the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> area just after 10am today on suspicion of their murders, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">A man aged 34 was arrested at the same time on suspicion of assisting an offender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Both remain in custody this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Senior investigating officer Jenny Birch said: \u201cThese arrests are a significant development in our investigation, and the families of Duane and Syed have been updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">\u201cOur thoughts remain with them at this time, and we will continue to support them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Police continue to appeal for anyone who has information about the murders to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">The force said: &#8220;If you saw or heard anything which could help our investigation, call us on 101 quoting log 358 of 19 September.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man has been arrested in Birmingham on suspicion of murdering two men in WolverhamptonFather-of-three Syed Zain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55,2653],"class_list":["post-274180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wolverhampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}