Maida Hill shooting: Army medic uses battlefield skills to save teen shot on millionaires’ row

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An Army medic used battlefield first aid to treat a teenager gunned down in a suspected drive-by shooting on a millionaires’ row, witnesses said.

Residents heard at least seven shots in the tree-lined road in Maida Hill and raced outside to find the 18-year-old boy collapsed shortly before 8.30pm last night.

A soldier passing the scene on his bike stopped and helped paramedics battle for half an hour to stabilise the youth. He was in a critical condition in hospital today.

A neighbour in Walterton Road said: “I heard seven shots then came outside. The boy was on the ground. He’d been shot in the neck. An Army medic was passing at the time and kept pressure on his wound. He was incredible.”

Police at the scene in Maida Hill where an 18-year-old was shot
NIGEL HOWARD ©

Another resident, Sarah Knights, 43, said: “It’s quite frightening to hear gunfire in a nice street like this. About 10 minutes before it happened, our family members with children had just left and walked down the street, so it is really scary.”

Neighbours saw a car pull a U-turn at speed before screeching away from the scene. The victim was found around 100 yards from the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee School for children with severe learning difficulties.

Today a police cordon remained in place in Walterton Road, where Regency townhouses fetch up to £3 million, as forensic teams and sniffer dogs searched for evidence.

Following the shooting, a Section 60 order granting police extra stop and search powers was imposed over a swathe of Maida Hill, Lisson Grove and West Kilburn.

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: “The man has been taken to hospital where he is in a critical condition. At this early stage, there have been no arrests.”

Amid rising knife crime fuelled by drugs, 25 teenagers have been killed this year in the capital, 23 of whom were stabbed to death and one shot.

Mayor Sadiq Khan was confronted over violent crime on Good Morning Britain today by weatherman Alex Beresford, whose cousin Nathan Armstrong, 29, was stabbed to death in March.

He told the Mayor: “Words can’t describe what it’s like to lose one of your cousins to knife crime. It cuts you so deep inside.”

Mr Khan replied: “I feel it. I don’t go to bed until my daughter comes home. I live in the communities that you know about. That’s where I live. The buck stops with me.”

Anyone with information on the Maida Hill shooting is asked to call police via 101 quoting reference Cad 7338/3Dec.

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