Gunman opens fire at homes and busy takeaway in terrifying shooting spree

A gunman carried out terrifying ‘jobs’ at homes and a busy takeaway during a shooting spree. Zaki Shazad, the ‘organiser’ of the shootings, arranged to pay gunman Kieran Morgan to carry out the crimes at locations in Stockport and south Manchester.

Morgan fired a sawn-off shotgun at a house on Wilmslow Road as a family were packing up their car for Eid celebrations. In another incident, a homemade explosive device was thrown towards a house in Stockport following a shooting. Morgan also walked into a takeaway in Burnage and fired a shotgun twice as terrified staff and customers cowered for their safety, Manchester Crown Court heard.

No-one was hurt during the shocking incidents in March and April last year. Shazad, 21, and Morgan, 29, face lengthy jail sentences for conspiring to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life.

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The first incident occurred at about 9pm on March 12 last year, at a house on Dorac Avenue in Heald Green, Stockport. Morgan was wearing a mask and dark clothing when a shotgun was fired at the house. A homemade explosive device was then thrown towards the property, but it bounced off a wall before Morgan picked it up and threw it at a higher trajectory where it ‘went off like a firework’.

A member of the public had driven past when he heard a ‘bomb sound’. He shouted ‘stop’ but the shooter fled the scene in a silver Mercedes.

The second shooting happened at a house on Wilmslow Road, on April 21 last year, when a family was packing up their car. Morgan arrived at the scene at around noon with a hold-all bag.

Wearing a face mask, he opened fire towards the property. No-one was hurt but there was damage caused to