Man 'miraculously' survived after being shot as gunman opened fire at family home, trial told

A man 'miraculously' survived after being shot when a gunman opened fire at a family home, a jury has been told. Three men are accused of attempted murder after a 20-year-old man was blasted in the chest at a house in Little Hulton, Salford.

Tyler Harrison, 20; James Gregory, 20; and Jacob Humphreys, 21, deny trying to murder Samuel Adesanya. "This case is about a shooting," prosecutor David Temkin KC told a jury during his opening speech at Manchester Crown Court.

"In the evening of May 26 this year, a black car pulled up outside a house in Little Hulton," he added. "The car contained a number of males. They were all dressed in black. They had their hoods up. Some of them carried weapons and one of them carried a gun.

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"The males walked through the garden and up the drive and they began smashing windows. It was a noisy and shocking scene. Inside that house there was a family, including four young children. Luckily, the young children were all upstairs.

"There were three adults in the house, two were members of the family. One was a visitor. The visitor's name was Samuel Adesanya, a 20-year-old man. Samuel Adesanya was shot in the chest. The gunman was in very close proximity to Samuel Adesanya when he pulled the trigger."

Mr Temkin said Mr Adesanya was standing inside the house near the front door, visible through a pane of glass. "All that separated Samuel Adesanya from the gunman was that pane of glass," the prosecutor added. "The gunman pulled the trigger at close range and aimed it directly at Samuel Adesanya's chest.

"The bullet pierced the glass and entered Samuel Adesanya's body in his upper right chest. The gunman and the other males then