{"id":341204,"date":"2025-12-29T15:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341204\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:54:17","slug":"man-carrying-handgun-shot-and-killed-by-police-after-crash-in-norfolk-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341204\/","title":{"rendered":"Man ‘carrying handgun’ shot and killed by police after crash in Norfolk | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man believed to have been carrying a handgun has been shot and killed by police after a car crash in the Norfolk town of Thetford. <\/p>\n

The man is thought to have been the driver of one of two vehicles involved in the collision on London Road at around 8.25pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Norfolk<\/a> Police said he left the scene holding what was described as a handgun and was shot by armed officers nearby.<\/p>\n

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

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The force has notified the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which has launched an investigation.<\/p>\n

Assistant Chief Constable David Buckley said: “We understand this incident will cause concern in the community.<\/p>\n

“Our highly trained armed officers deploy to hundreds of firearms related calls each year, but incidents where police discharge firearms are thankfully incredibly rare. A full and independent investigation is already underway.<\/p>\n

“We are of course cooperating fully with the IOPC investigation and will be handing over all bodyworn footage and 999 calls to ensure transparency.<\/p>\n

“We are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.”<\/p>\n

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Police said the A11 remains closed in both directions from the Thetford Ranges roundabout to the Brandon Road roundabout.<\/p>\n

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An IOPC spokesperson said the watchdog has begun an independent investigation, which “is in its very early stages”.<\/p>\n

“We were notified by the force after the incident on the A11, at Thetford, near the exit for London Road, at 9:39pm and declared an independent investigation a short time later,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“Despite the man receiving treatment for his injuries, he sadly died at the scene.<\/p>\n

“We sent investigators to the post-incident procedure to begin our enquiries and start gathering evidence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man believed to have been carrying a handgun has been shot and killed by police after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-341204","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\/341204","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=341204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}