The victim of an early evening shooting in southwest London is in a stable condition in hospital.
The incident happened in the car park of a plaza on Wonderland Road, south of Teeple Terrace.
The victim was closing for the day at RK Forever Jewellry, according to his business partner.
“He went up to that car and after he did, there was another car, the other black car, it was a black car that started moving, two guys got out of the car and jumped out of the car, one with the gun,” Subhi Alkotub said.
CTV News was shown surveillance footage of the attack that shows two men jump out of the vehicle, walk out of camera range, but seconds later you see a red SUV driven by the victim quickly reverse and drive away to a safe distance.
“Then Rahim [the victim] he realized they were trying to jump them, so when he started to move the car, that’s when the bullet came out and shot him,” Alcotube said.
Police described the incident as an altercation in a news release Thursday morning, but family and friends believe it was a targeted robbery attempt
“My explanation is that they were trying to grab it back in the store because it’s all in the safe. So they’re going to force them to move everything out, grab it and leave,” Alkotub said.
The brazen attack happened after many of the square’s businesses had closed for the evening, so many didn’t find out what had happened until they came to work on Thursday.
“Usually it’s a quiet area, even though it’s in Wonderland, it’s quiet like nothing happened here, I live in the area so it’s just shocking,” said Alicia Willis
The victim underwent a three-hour procedure at the hospital on Wednesday night and is now in a stable condition
“It’s fortunate that the bullet was about an inch from the heart and they were able to get it out and stabilize it,” Alkotubb said.
Police are investigating the incident and are asking members of the public to check their body cameras if they were in the area around 6pm on Wednesday night.
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