Overview

• West Midlands Police launched a murder investigation after shots were fired around 3:10am on September 19 in Leicester Street, Whitmore Reans, where two men were found in a vehicle.
• One man in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene and a man in his 30s remains in hospital with life‑threatening injuries, according to police and ambulance service statements.
• Section 60 stop‑and‑search powers covered parts of Whitmore Reans from 7pm Friday to 8am Saturday, with officers maintaining an increased presence as enquiries continue.
• Separately, four people were shot at Mango nightclub on Bristol Street, Birmingham, at about 3am on September 20, leaving one man critically injured and three others with less serious wounds.
• Three suspects in their 20s and 30s were arrested from a car on the M6 in Warwickshire on suspicion of violent disorder; Bristol Street southbound is cordoned from the Pagoda Island to Bromsgrove Street as detectives appeal for information (quote log 358 for Wolverhampton, log 561 for Birmingham).