{"id":7692,"date":"2025-12-29T07:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:13:10","slug":"man-shot-dead-by-norfolk-police-in-thetford-after-two-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7692","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead by Norfolk Police in Thetford after two-car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A man believed to be carrying a handgun has been shot and killed by police following a car crash in Thetford, Norfolk Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force was called to London Road, Thetford, at about 20:35 GMT on Sunday when a man, believed to be the driver of one of the vehicles, left the scene holding what was described as a handgun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Armed response officers attended and the suspect was subsequently shot by police from &#8220;a short distance away&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Norfolk Police said that despite the efforts of emergency services he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Following the incident, the A11 remained closed in both directions. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Norfolk Police said it had made a &#8220;standard procedure&#8221; referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) following the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force&#8217;s Assistant Chief Constable David Buckley said: &#8220;We understand this incident will cause concern in the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Our highly trained armed officers deploy to hundreds of firearms related calls each year, but incidents where police discharge firearms are thankfully incredibly rare. A full and independent investigation is already underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We are of course cooperating fully with the IOPC investigation and will be handing over all body-worn footage and 999 calls to ensure transparency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Man #shot #dead #Norfolk #Police #Thetford #twocar #crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man believed to be carrying &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}