{"id":701646,"date":"2019-09-09T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/man-dies-after-accidentally-shooting-himself\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:17:42","slug":"man-dies-after-accidentally-shooting-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/man-dies-after-accidentally-shooting-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies After Accidentally Shooting Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-705277\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/c-1.png\" alt=\"Man kills himself\" width=\"498\" height=\"344\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A new report has confirmed the death of a man in London after he accidentally shot himself while trying to gun down someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Gunshots were heard in Sydenham Road in Lewisham at 3.45pm on Sunday before a man, believed to be in his 20s, was found with gunshot wounds by officers who had been called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He died at the scene just five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>A woman, 56, told officers she saw the man trying to shoot someone else before being hit by the bullet himself.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cHe ended up shooting himself. The bullet bounced off a car window. You can see on the car window where the bullet bounced off it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter it happened, the boy he [tried] to shoot stood there filming him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Man Shoots Himself Dead By Mistake While Escaping After Trying To Kill Ex-Girlfriend\u2019s Lover (Photos)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been there for three hours covered by a sheet. No mum, no dad. It\u2019s really sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A shopkeeper on the nearby high street also said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA group of guys were sitting in a car by the bank and a big guy came up to them with a shotgun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all got out of the car and ran so the guy decided to damage the car with the back of the gun.\u00a0As he was hitting the windows the gun went off and he shot himself \u2013 that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another man said; \u201cWe\u2019ve heard three or four different stories \u2013 we\u2019ve heard it was a guy on a moped, someone in a car and then that the [victim] did it to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Reeves, Labour MP for Lewisham West and Penge, reacting to the news via Twitter wrote; \u201cShocked and saddened to learn of the fatal shooting in Sydenham this afternoon. My thoughts are with the victim and their family. This violence has no place in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report has confirmed the death of a man in London after he accidentally shot himself while trying to gun down someone else. 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