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Gunmen kill dad & girls
Murder scene ... police guard flats where three people died
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By ELSIE JENKINS
A GRANDAD and his two daughters were found shot dead in a flat yesterday — as an unharmed nine-month-old baby lay nearby covered in blood.
The victims, Noel Patterson, 62, and his two stepdaughters Lorna and Connie Morrison, aged 34 and 27, were discovered by a relative.
Lorna's baby son Christianowas examined at hospital and last night was in the care of social services. A neighbour described the male victim as “a hard-working cleaner�.
Police dashed to the flat at 3pm yesterday in Harlesden, North London, after a report that people had been injured. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “All three victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
“Fortunately, the young child at the flat suffered no injuries.�
The case is being investigated by Operation Trident, which deals with black-on-black crime. Detective Superintendent Gary Richardson said that detectives were keeping an open mind about the possible motive for the triple murder.
He said: "We don’t know what the motive was, that is one of our main lines of inquiry, to find out why these people were targeted if indeed they were targeted."
He added: "Our inquiries have led to police wishing to identify three black youths seen to enter Clark Court at about 8.30 to 9pm on Thursday, August 4.
"It is believed that those youths may have parked a vehicle - we don’t have details of the vehicle - on Diamond Street before entering the flats. We have no sighting of them leaving.
"They are described as two being around 6ft tall and one considerably shorter, all wearing hooded tops turned up and concealing their faces."
A neighbour in the block of flats said she heard gunfire the previous evening.