Overview
- Police were called after reports of shots fired on Grebe Drive in Leighton Buzzard shortly before 3:30pm on Wednesday, November 4, and specialist armed officers located a vehicle they linked to the incident.
- When officers tried to stop the car a pursuit began that ran into Dunstable, where the vehicle collided with another car in Porz Avenue and the occupants fled on foot.
- One man was treated at the scene for minor injuries and emergency teams closed Porz Avenue between Boscombe Way and the Lovatt Road roundabout while they worked.
- A nearby lower school was placed in a precautionary lockdown during the response and later confirmed it reopened as normal the following day.
- Bedfordshire Police have deployed scene guards, increased patrols on nearby roads and appealed to the public for information under Operation Tanglewood as the search for the suspects continues.