Daniel Hill Street Sheffield: Residents tell what they heard and saw on night of shootings

Police flooded into Daniel Hill Street yesterday, with a cordon running from the corner of Ruskin Park, down to Daniel Hill Mews, for much of the day.

Blue and white police tape stretched across the road at both ends, and also blocked off pedestrian footpaths which snake through the some of the nearby housing.

One house, part of a block of terraces appeared to be at the centre of a police search, with police outside the front and also spotted in its back garden.

Police dogs were also at the scene, and teams of officers could seen spreading out across the whole width of the street, carrying out fingertip searches of the street.

Glass could be seen on road, near the house that residents say was searched.

One resident said she thought she had heard gunshots at around 9pm to 9.30pm on Thursday.

She said: "I heard what sounded like two gunshots. They were really short, sharp bursts, and then shouting afterwards.

" But shouting is not that uncommon around here.

"It's not uncommon to hear cars screeching round here.

" I don't think what I heard was a door. It was two sounds quick together like a loud pop. It was enough to be a bit worried."

Another described hearing a bang that sounded like a door being 'rammed in'.

Locals were shocked to see the see the large police presence around Daniel Hill Street.

One resident told The Star: "There was a bang that I heard at about midnight. But I think that was a door. It seemed to high pitched to be a gunshot."

He said he had seen police in the back garden of the house that was thought to have been raided.

Another neighbour said his partner had told him they had heard shouting last night, but that that was not unusual in the area.

Another said he had seen the police helicopter flying over last night, but did not realise there was a major incident until he got up this morning at about 7.30am.

Another said he saw police cars at around 10pm last night, after getting home from a supermarket.

Police said officers they were called on Thursday, April 3 at 10.04pm after receiving a call that a gun had been fired at Daniel Hill Street in the Hillfoot/ Upperthorpe area of Sheffield.

It is reported that shots were fired outside an address on the street, and the windows of a vehicle were smashed. It is then believed that a vehicle fled the scene.

A few hours later, at 3.11am (April 4), officers were called to reports of a road traffic collision at Liberty Drive in the Stannington area of Sheffield.

It is understood that a motorbike and a silver Golf were involved in a collision and that shots were fired at a man.

The incidents are being treated as linked and a man, aged 37, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and a woman, aged 39, has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm.

A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle.

All three remain in police custody at this time.

Anyone with information that may help police with their enquiries, should contact them online or by calling 101 and quoting incident number 948 of April 3, 2025.

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