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Christmas Holiday Violence Leaves Multiple Dead and Critically Injured Across UK and US

Police opened parallel investigations with arrests, forensic searches and public appeals spanning unrelated cases.

Overview

  • In Sheffield, a 20-year-old man remains in a critical, life‑threatening condition after being shot in the chest on Christmas Night, and four men aged 20 to 29 were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
  • Houston police say three officers fatally shot a man at the CityScape Apartments after responding to a report of a gun threat, with multiple weapons found in his SUV and the officers placed on administrative leave during the inquiry.
  • Baltimore detectives are investigating after a car crashed into a West Lafayette Avenue home and the 27-year-old driver was found with an apparent gunshot wound; the victim was reported in critical condition and the damaged home was condemned.
  • Separate U.S. incidents included at least six people shot in Chicago with one fatality, three Louisville shootings and two stabbings with one death and an arrest, a Southfield apartment shootout that killed two men and injured a 3‑year‑old, and an Indianapolis homicide arrest of Frederick Sims Jr.
  • In Derbyshire’s Gamesley area, CCTV captured what appeared to be a firearm discharge during a street fight that left two teens injured and led to four arrests, while Police Scotland is treating a 38‑year‑old man’s Christmas Day death in Glasgow as unexplained pending post‑mortem.