How Streatham terror attack unfolded in front of stunned Sunday shoppers
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Several witnesses told the inquest into Amman’s death that they did not understand what they were seeing, believing the terror attack to be a “YouTube prank” or gang fight. Thomas Baldwin noticed a man running and “skipping” up the pavement before watching the stabbing, telling the inquest: “I witnessed him thrust his right arm forward and plunge the knife into the other man's right side of his torso.” Mr Baldwin and his partner, Katherine Day, got out of their car and ran to the victim’s aid as he stood in shock and Amman ran onwards. “The girl was crying, saying 'please don't go’.” The man recalled hearing a paramedic say “he’s not going to make it” before losing consciousness, adding: “Thank God for the doctors, or I would be dead.” open image in gallery Both stabbings were witnessed by undercover armed police officers who were following Amman as part of a planned surveillance operation, and started chasing him after he left Low Price Store. Ms Munday went back into Sainsbury’s to get off the street and recalled: “I spoke to an employee and said 'someone's just been shot' and he said 'was it real?.” Another witness, who filmed the police shooting from a bus travelling along the road, could be heard muttering: “This ain't real, this ain't real.”
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