{"id":345622,"date":"2026-01-01T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345622\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:45:09","slug":"willesden-man-charged-with-murder-after-car-hit-pedestrians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345622\/","title":{"rendered":"Willesden man charged with murder after car hit pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A man has been charged with murder after a car hit a pedestrian in north-west London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Shakaine Dwyer, 29, has been charged with killing Ruben Nunes, 34, from Peterborough, who was run over on 3 December in Willesden, the Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Dwyer, of Willesden, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving on 7 December, but on Monday this was changed to murder, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Gregory Ejiofor, 31, of Milton Keynes, has been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, the Met Police added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">At 12:45 GMT, officers were called to Chapel Close to reports of a collision between a car and pedestrians. Mr Nunes died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Earlier this month his family said: &#8220;Ruben was a family man &#8211; a son, a brother, an uncle, a father and a partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;He was true to his friends and cherished the people around him. He loved football and was a big Liverpool fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Ruben had a light within him &#8211; he brightened the lives of everyone he touched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;He was deeply loved by all who knew him and he will always be remembered as a truly blessed soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after a car hit a pedestrian in north-west London. Shakaine Dwyer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-345622","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\/345622","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=345622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}