At about 12:30 am on 21 June 2020, two young men were shot dead at a street party in Moss Side, an inner-city area of Manchester in North West England.
[4] Gunshot was reported at a location on Caythorpe Street, with armed police responding to the scene at 01:00.
They discovered a party attended by hundreds of people, in violation of COVID-19 lockdown guidelines in the country at the time.
A local resident said the party had begun at around 22:00 the night before, and that Moss Side was a peaceful neighbourhood with infrequent spikes of violent activity.
[1][4] The two fatally wounded men self-presented at an Accident and Emergency department,[1] either shortly before 01:00 (according to the police)[5] or at about 01:30 (according to the Manchester Evening News).