The victim of an early evening shooting in south-west London is in a stable condition in hospital.
The incident took place in a car park on Wonderland Road, south of Teeple Terrace.
According to his business partner, the victim was closed for the day at RK Forever Jewellry.
“He walked up to this car and once he had, there was another car, the other black car was a black car that started moving, two guys got out of the car jumped out of the car, one with a gun” , Subhi said. alcotube
CTV News was shown video surveillance footage of the attack, where two men can be seen jumping out of the vehicle, going out of camera range, but seconds later a red SUV driven by the victim is seen quickly backing up and moves to a safe distance.
“So it was when Rahim [the victim] he realized they’re trying to jump them, so when he started to move the car that’s when the bullet came out and shot him,” Alkotub said.
Police described the incident as an altercation in a news release sent out Thursday morning, but family and friends believe it was an attempted robbery.
“My explanation is that they were trying to take it back to the store because everything is in the safe. So they would be forced to take everything out and take it and leave,” Alkotub said.
The brazen attack took place after many of the shops in the square had closed for the night, so many of them did not find out what happened until they came to work on Thursday.
“This is normally a quiet area, even though it’s in Wonderland, it’s quiet like nothing’s going on here again, I live in the area so it’s amazing,” said Alicia Willaeys.
The victim underwent a three-hour procedure at the hospital on Wednesday night and is now in a stable condition
“He’s lucky the bullet was an inch from his heart and they were able to get it out and stabilize him,” Alkotub said.
Police are investigating the incident and are asking the public to check their dash cameras if they were in the area around 6pm on Wednesday evening.