Two shootings on Sheffield street three weeks apart 'not linked' say police

Two shootings on the same Sheffield street in the space of three weeks are not believed to be linked, according to the police.
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A 21-year-old was critically injured when he was shot in his chest in Grimesthorpe Road, Burngreave, at around 2.30pm on Thursday, April 16.

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Witnesses described shots being fired from one car towards another.

Police officers searching land after one of two shootings on Grimesthorpe Road, Burngreave, SheffieldPolice officers searching land after one of two shootings on Grimesthorpe Road, Burngreave, Sheffield
Police officers searching land after one of two shootings on Grimesthorpe Road, Burngreave, Sheffield
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Two men seen shielding behind the car which was fired at were then seen pulling an injured man from the vehicle into a nearby garden, where he received emergency first aid until police and paramedics arrived.

He was taken to hospital and survived.

Three weeks later, on Friday May 8, another shooting took place in the same street.

On that occasion a gun was fired at a group of men stood together just after midnight.

Three men were wounded and taken to hospital for treatment.

South Yorkshire Police said the two incidents are ‘not being linked’.

Nobody has been charged over either shooting.

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On the day of the second shooting in Grimesthorpe Road there were three others across the city.

A man was shot when a gun was fired at a flat on Club Garden Road, Sharrow; two groups of men opened fire at each other in Machon Bank, Nether Edge and a house was fired at on nearby Union Road.

One man has been charged with drug offences as part of the investigation into the Machon Bank incident and a number of arrests have been made for firearm offences.

Anyone with information should call 101.