A man shot dead in northwest London has been named as 55-year-old Simon Whyte.<\/p>\n
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police<\/a>‘s Specialist Crime Team are appealing for witnesses, information and anyone with dashcam footage to come forward following the incident in Stonebridge<\/a>, Brent, on Friday evening.<\/p>\n They are particularly keen to hear from a small group who were congregated nearby at the time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Detective Chief Inspector Neil John said his thoughts were with Mr Whyte’s family and friends at this “incredibly difficult time”.<\/p>\n He added: “There’s no doubt this incident will cause concern in the local community and more widely, but we have increased patrols in the area.<\/p>\n “I’d like to reassure the public that our investigation remains a priority.”<\/p>\n He continued: “I would urge anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has information, including dashcam footage, that will assist us with our enquiries to contact us at the earliest opportunity.”<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Police were called just after 9.30pm on Friday to reports of a shooting in West End Close.<\/p>\n Officers administered emergency first aid and the London Ambulance Service attended the incident but Mr Whyte died at the scene.<\/p>\n No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man shot dead in northwest London has been named as 55-year-old Simon Whyte. Detectives from the Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-328688","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328688","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=328688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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