Wood Green shooting: Eight arrested after man killed in street

Met Police Camilo PalacioMet Police
Camilo Palacio was killed on High Road in Wood Green

Eight people have been arrested over the killing of a man who was shot dead on a north London street.

Camilo Palacio, 23, was attacked on High Road in Wood Green on 24 July at about 21:30 BST - the second fatal shooting in the area within 24 hours.

He was pronounced dead 30 minutes later with a post-mortem examination finding the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the chest.

The Met said five people had been arrested in London and three in Kent.

The force said officers had stopped a car in Harlesden, north-west London, on Sunday and arrested two men aged 27 and 64 on suspicion of murder, and a 25-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender.

A 16-year-old was also arrested on suspicion of murder after police raided a Haringey address.

On the same day, officers working on behalf of the Met arrested two men aged 30 and 24 on suspicion of murder, and a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of assisting an offender in Margate, Kent.

On Monday, an 18-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder at London City Airport.

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