Two men facing jail for shooting man on quiet Wolverhampton street
Two young men are facing jail sentences after being convicted of shooting and seriously injuring a man when he was in a car in Wolverhampton.
West Midlands Police officers were called after a car hit another vehicle on Westbourne Road in Penn at around 6.30pm on December 18 last year.
Officers found the driver, who was in in his 30s, had suffered a gunshot wound to the top of his leg and he was taken for hospital treatment.
Investigations by the Major Crime Unit found that earlier that day two other men had arrived in a nearby alleyway, with one of them then getting into the victim's car when it was parked outside a shop.
A shot was fired and the man left, while the victim drove a short distance and hit another vehicle, before police were called.
With the retrieval of CCTV footage and the forensic analysis of mobile phone data, the two offenders were identified as Ethan Edwards and Ilir Hoxha, both aged 22.
Following further enquiries the team traced the two men and arrested Edwards on January 13 and Hoxha on January 21.
Edwards, of Upper Villiers Street, Wolverhampton, admitted wounding with intent and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Tuesday (November 25).
Hoxha, of no fixed address, had previously pleaded guilty to the same charges in October. Both men have been remanded in custody for sentencing on January 30.
Detective Inspector Francis Nock from the West Midlands Police Major Crime Unit said: "These two men are now behind bars, and rightly so.
"Gun violence like this is wholly unacceptable and with the weapon being fired at their victim at such close range and in a confined space, the intent was clearly to do him real harm.
"Thankfully he has been able to make a recovery and both offenders have admitted being involved in the shooting which could so easily have proved even more serious."
