Chris Kaba, who was in his 20s, died in hospital in the early hours of Tuesday after being shot at around 10pm in Kirkstall Gardens in Streatham Hill. Metropolitan Police officers said they used a tactic where they deliberately crashed into a car in an attempt to end the pursuit on the residential street. Local residents reported hearing gunshots and a police helicopter hovering overhead. Image: Forensics at the scene in Kirkstall Gardens Friends gathered at the scene of the shooting Tuesday, asking if the man who was shot had a gun. Police said Mr Kamba received first aid from officers at the scene before being taken to hospital but died at 12.16am. A 39-year-old man, who lives in nearby New Park Road and asked not to be named, told the PA news agency: “The (driver) drove down New Park Road and found Kirkstall Gardens. “A police car came down from Kirkstall Gardens and ran over him. “Another police car got in behind him and he was locked up at the bottom of Kirkstall Gardens. “The car was stationary when it was shot.” Another witness told the Evening Standard that the man who was shot, driving an Audi, tried to pass the police cars. Lockdowns are in place at Kirkstall Gardens and New Park Road, with a forensics scene in place and officers gathering evidence at the scene. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), the police watchdog, said it had launched an independent investigation just before midnight, as it usually does after a police shooting, and investigators were dispatched to the scene. The regulator said: “Our thoughts and condolences are with everyone affected by this terrible incident. “Our research remains in the very early stages.”
