Shot fired during Much Wenlock gun drama
Armed police fired a shot during a dramatic stand-off with a gunman on a quiet residential street in a town in Shropshire.
A man in his 50s threatened police twice after he was spotted wielding a pistol. They were first threatened by the man in High Causeway, Much Wenlock, before he tried to enter a home in Stretton Road.
Armed officers fired a shot and a police dog was eventually released to tackle the man in Havelock Crescent.
Nobody was injured in the drama and a man in his 50s from the Telford area remains in custody today.
Residents today spoke of their shock after seeing armed police on their street.
Mother-of-three Jane Shepherd, of Havelock Crescent, said her eight-year-old son William, had been playing outside at about 4pm yesterday when a man approached.
She said: "Police officers ran up to them and screamed at them to get indoors. As soon as I got them inside I looked outside and I saw a man at the foot of my front garden holding a pistol and smoking a cigarette. He was as cool as a cucumber. In no time there were armed police on the scene. At one point the police were hiding behind my car."
Mrs Shepherd, 37, who has three children Katie, 10, William, eight, and George, five, who all attend Much Wenlock Primary School, added: "Nothing like this happens in Much Wenlock."
A West Mercia Police spokesman said: "A shot was fired by an armed officer but no one was injured." A man was today being questioned at Malinsgate Police Station, Telford.
