Watch: Chilling moment man open fires with a sawn-off shotgun at Smethwick retail park
Chilling footage has been released which shows the moment that a gunman open fired a sawn-off shotgun at a retail park, blasting one man in the leg.
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In the CCTV footage released by West Midlands Police, 26-year-old Saabir Mohamed can be seen jumping from a Ford Kuga before firing the deadly weapon towards his victim in a car park in Smethwick.
The injured man was dropped off in an Audi at Birmingham's City Hospital with gunshot wounds to his lower leg and foot and staff there alerted police.
The force said that the victim refused to talk to officers about what had happened but CCTV was able to track the Audi back to the scene of the shooting at Cape Hill Retail Park.
CCTV footage shows the vehicle entering the car park along with a second vehicle on the evening of October 23 last year.
Shortly after, the Ford Kuga, driven by 22-year-old Tyjon Cogger arrived on the scene.
West Midlands Police said it had been travelling around the area with no obvious destination and it's believed the occupants had been looking for the victim and his associates.
Mohamed is then seen on CCTV getting out of the car and firing the sawn-off shotgun twice before the Kuga drove away from the scene.
The occupants then got into a Mercedes and further footage revealed it was driven to a petrol station where Cogger refuelled it.
Detectives were able to identify and arrest the pair from trawling hours of CCTV and studying telecommunications data.
Dramatic body-cam footage shows the moment Mohamed and Cogger were both arrested at gunpoint with green laser dots trained on their bodies.
Cogger, of Dudley, and Mohamed, of Smethwick, have now been found guilty of firearms offences and will be sentenced on October 3.
Detective Inspector Francis Nock, from the West Midlands Police Major Crime Unit, said: “Officers worked extremely hard to piece together what happened and spent hundreds of hours reviewing CCTV footage.
“It is down to their hard work that we identified Cogger and Mohamed and brought them to justice.
“These men are dangerous and are now rightfully behind bars, making our streets a safer place.”
