A 19-YEAR-OLD is being treated in hospital after being shot in the stomach.
The teenager was shot in Aston Avenue, Fallowfield.
Doctors are hoping to remove the bullet but say he is currently in a stable condition.
Police are now appealing for witnesses to the shooting.
Det Insp James Ellson, of Longsight CID, said: "Police inquiries are at a very early stage but we are urging anyone with any information to come forward.
"We particularly want to hear from anyone who saw someone acting suspiciously, or any suspicious vehicles, in the street in the early hours of this morning. "
We are keeping an open mind about any motive and a team of detectives are now working to establish the circumstances.
"We have stepped up patrols in the area to provide reassurance to residents."
Anyone with any information should call police on 0161 872 5050 or call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
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Maynard Kitchener Lampwick Manchester , (20/06/2009 at 16:47)
Nate Locc (21/06/2009 at 03:34)
Mustafa Say (21/06/2009 at 16:04)
citycentre, manchester (21/06/2009 at 17:37)
gunpowder weapons were used in the wars of the roses and english civil war, was this due to multiculturalism? most of the british empire was carved out due to the advantage british troops armed with superior gunpowder weapons had over the people they conquered.
didnt those non multicultural gangs led by the krays and richardsons both use guns, and indeed their leaders were jailed for firearms offenses?
Mustafa Say (21/06/2009 at 17:57)
What you say I will go along with mostly but the inner cities of the UK have now become unreconizable places and changed for the worse.
citycentre, manchester (21/06/2009 at 19:04)
The US ecconomist Steven Levitt has demonsrated a link between the level of violent inner city crime (especailly shooting) and the price of drugs (or at least crack coccaine, as his study was in America at a time when this was the dominant drug). The higher the price drugs sold for the more violence accompanied their sale, as it was worth killing for the large profits, and equally or more important, when the price fell the profits were not worth being killed for.
The reason for the high price of drugs? Police action, a few weeks ago a police unit called SOCA was boasting that its actions had increased the street price of cocaine in the UK. So we pay the police to increase violent and gun crime, then pay them again to crack down on the violent criminals, and then pay again to keep the criminals locked up.
AnOnYmOuS!!, Manchester (22/06/2009 at 12:46)