Two local men, who didn’t want to be named, said they saw the suspect armed with two blood-stained knives outside a shop shortly after the incident began.<\/p>\n
“I got out of my car and the guy came up to me with his hands behind his back. He said, can I speak to you,” one man told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“He had the two knives behind his back, covered in blood.”<\/p>\n
The man said an onlooker handed him a spirit level which he then used to confront the suspect.<\/p>\n
“He handed me the spirit level and we just started going for it,” the man said.<\/p>\n
“He started going towards the school so I was just trying to chase him back. He’s coming towards me the whole time.”<\/p>\n
“The police were there but they said they weren’t allowed to get out of their car because it was a firearms incident.<\/p>\n
“He walked away up to the flats.”<\/p>\n
Firearms officers are routinely deployed to knife incidents and were seen going into the block of flats.<\/p>\n
Paramedics wearing helmets and body armour were also in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two local men, who didn’t want to be named, said they saw the suspect armed with two blood-stained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453765","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\/453765","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=453765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}