Police say one Manchester synagogue attack victim may have been killed by an officer’s gunshot, in «a tragic and unforeseen» consequence of the rapid response.
London — One of the two people killed in Thursday’s terrorist attack outside a synagogue in the northern English city of Manchester may have died of a gunshot fired by a police officer, the Greater Manchester Police said Friday. Two Jewish men, identified by police as Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz, were killed and three others were seriously wounded during the attack, which happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar.
Both of the victims were local residents.
A government pathologist advised the police «that he has provisionally determined that one of the deceased victims would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury», Stephen Watson, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police force, said in a statement Friday.
«It is currently believed that the suspect, Jihad Al Shamie, was not in possession of a firearm», Watson said. «It follows therefore, that subject to further forensic examination, this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end.
