Two men on a motorbike shot a 34-year-old man in the street in Little Hulton, Salford, in what police are treating as attempted murder.
Armed police were scrambled to Coniston Avenue at 11.30pm last night, Monday 5 October after shocked residents reported three or four separate gunshots.
The gunmen are believed to have driven up and down Coniston Avenue for around half an hour looking for their target late last night.
The victim was shot three times in the torso, chest and side and left bleeding in the street.
He remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Officers called the shooting a ‘targeted attack’.
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It’s understood the man has a family, with children, and that they were inside the property at the time of the shooting.
No-one else was hurt.
Armed officers were circling the area around nearby Gorse Drive yesterday afternoon, at one point cordoning off a section of the street. It’s not yet been said whether this is related to the shooting.
Police are not linking the shooting with a series of tit-for-tat house shootings nearby in Little Hulton over the past two months.
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Detective Chief Inspector Clare Devlin of Salford division said: “People will understandably be alarmed when they hear about this incident but we believe that this was a targeted attack.
“We are treating this as an attempted murder but we are in the early stages of our investigation and are working to establish who may be behind the shooting.
“We are not linking this to any other recent shootings in Salford at this stage.
“I would like to assure the public that we have increased level of police officers in the area and we do not believe there is a wider threat to the community.
“I would urge the local community to come forward if they saw or heard anything in the area in the early hours of this morning to contact police.”
Anyone with information should call police on 0161 856 8361, 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Greater Manchester Police also put the nearby Amblecote estate in a little-publicised ‘ASBO lockdown’ early last week.
It gave officers the power to disperse groups of youths, order people to leave the estate for a short time, and beef up stop-and-search.
