Police given more time to quiz shooting suspects
BBCPolice investigating a shooting that left a man with a suspected gunshot wound have been granted more time to question two suspects.
Eight arrests in total were made after reports of a gun being fired on St Paul's Street, in the Gorse Hill area of Swindon in Wiltshire, just before 21:00 BST on 19 June.
A man in his 30s was taken to hospital, where he remains in a stable but critical condition.
Officers from Wiltshire Police have now been granted more time by Swindon Magistrates' Court to question a 20-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and a 19-year-old man arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.
Six others have been released on bail pending further investigations.
They include:
- A 51-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder
- A 30-year-old man arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder
- A 32-year-old man arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and being concerned in the supply of Class C drugs
- A 19-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender
- A 33-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and possession with intent to supply nitrous oxide for wrongful inhalation
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