A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a drive-by shooting outside a church that almost killed a 7-year-old girl and injured four women.
It has emerged the two women whose lives were being commemorated at a requiem mass were the wife and daughter of a Colombian who was jailed in 2009 for laundering money for a Colombian drugs gang.
A 22-year-old man was arrested in Barnet, north London, on Sunday afternoon and is in custody, where he is being questioned about the shooting.
Police and ambulance crews raced to the scene outside St. Aloysius Church—which serves the Roman Catholic community in the Somers Town estate, near Euston station—after reports of shots being fired on Saturday afternoon….