- A 31-year-old man was found with gunshot wounds and later died in hospital
- Police were called to an address at a housing estate in Birmingham on Friday
- A 30-year-old and 17-year-old were arrested in connection with the man’s death
A 31-year-old man found with a gunshot wound in a housing estate in Birmingham died after being taken to hospital.
Police went to an address in housing estate, Birmingham at 10pm on Friday.
The unnamed man was found critically injured and was provided emergency first aid before he was transported to hospital.
The house that has been cordoned off after a man was found by police at 10pm on Friday evening with a gunshot wound on Parkhouse Drive in Erdington, Birmingham
He was placed on a life support machine but was pronounced dead at 6pm yesterday.
A man aged 30 and a 17-year-old male were arrested in connection with the man’s death.
They will remain in police custody for questioning.
The 31-year-old died after being placed on a life support machine. A man aged 30 and a 17-year-old male were arrested in Parkhouse Drive in connection with the man’s death
Two properties in the street have been sealed off to allow police specialists to search the house for a full forensic examination.
West Midlands Police have now launched a murder investigation.
Detective Chief Inspector Edward Foster from West Midlands Police’s Homicide Unit, said: ‘We are conducting house-to-house enquiries and have already spoken to several potentially key witnesses.
‘But we’d ask anyone who’s not yet spoken to us – who lives nearby, was in the area or has information about what happened – to get in touch as they could have seen or heard something important.’
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