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This is the terrifying moment armed police surround a suspected gunman after a drive-by shooting at a funeral.
A seven-year-old girl was left fighting for life after a shotgun was fired at mourners in a “senseless act of violence”.
Five others were also wounded in the attack in Euston, North London, including a 48-year-old woman who suffered potentially life-changing injuries.
They were attending the funeral of Sara Sanchez, 20, and her mother Fresia Calderon, 50, the daughter and ex-wife of a Colombian Cali drugs cartel gangster.
Footage has now emerged of the moment armed officers stormed a residential street and arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder.
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Officers surrounded a carOfficers can be seen surrounding a Kia before screaming, “Get on the f***ing ground”.
Ten officers then encircle the car before removing the driver and pinning him to the road in Barnet, northwest London, at around 4pm on Sunday.
It comes as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the shooting in Euston and other atrocities, like the killing of five people in Keyham, Plymouth, in 2021, show the need for gun law reforms.
He said: “We’ve had these incidents from time to time with guns. And every time there is, there’s evidence, which I am concerned about, that people have access to guns that they shouldn’t have access to.
The memorial service was for British-Colombian cancer victim Sara Sanchez and her mother Fresia Calderon (GoFundMe)“Now, if it’s illegal access, obviously, that’s a pure matter of the criminal law.
“But other people, where better checks should be taken over circulation of guns...
“So I think that we need to look again as to whether those laws are strong enough. That may or may not help this particular case.”
Fresia and her Sara were being remembered at St Aloysius church on Phoenix Road, near Euston Station, after they died within a month of each other when Saturday’s shooting occurred.
Carlos Arturo Sanchez-Coronado pictured with his daughter Sara SanchezIt has since emerged that Fresia had links to the Colombian drug cartel.
Her former husband Carlos Arturo Sanchez-Coronado, who died last year aged 56, was the first man extradited from Colombia to Britain.
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He was convicted and jailed in the UK in 2009 for money laundering for the notorious Cali drug cartel, which featured in the Netflix show Narcos.
The criminal organisation’s share of the UK drugs market was so vast that the price of cocaine was said to have risen by 50 per cent following its dismantling.
The scene of a shooting outside a memorial service which was being held in St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church on Phoenix Road, in Euston (PA)During a number of raids of properties in north west London, police seized millions of pounds of cash and cocaine and marijuana with a street value of £100million.
Sanchez-Coronado, meanwhile, was later tracked down in Colombia where he had been working as a taxi driver.
He was imprisoned in 2009, before later moving back to South America, where he was believed to be living in the Chilean capital of Santiago before his death.
Fresia died after suffering a pulmonary embolism after she arrived at Heathrow from Colombia on November 5.
Her daughter Sara Sanchez, who had been diagnosed with leukaemia three years ago, succumbed 25 days later after “giving up all hope”, according to a family member.
The duo, along with Sara’s younger brother, had travelled to Colombia for a “final goodbye” and were on their way back when Fresia collapsed in front of both children.