THIS is the moment a thug blasts a house with a shotgun as his accomplice batters a neighbour’s door with a sledgehammer.
The two were captured on footage from a Ring doorbell while terrorising the street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in the early hours of the morning of January 11.
In the clip, the first man wearing a motorcycle helmet is seen advancing towards the door with a sledgehammer.
He then repeatedly bashes the door with the hammer, apparently attempting to break it down.
Meanwhile, the gunman, hooded and masked, takes up position behind him, and is seen to break and load the shotgun with cartridges taken from his tracksuit pocket.
But a brave woman is heard yelling off camera: “Get away from the house.”
The gunman fires the weapon. It is understood the pellets struck a window – but no one was hurt.
The man in the crash helmet looks unhappy about what what happened and starts to argue with the gunman.
Much of what is said in inaudible but the crash-helmeted man is heard to say: “Why did you shoot? You just shot a…”
Officers were called to Christopher Court – full of families and young children – near Thorp Garth, Idle, at 1:34am when 999 callers raised the alarm.
One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: “I first heard a loud bang but there were two shots.
“When I heard it I thought it was my car windows gone through.
“There were two guys on bikes hitting the door trying to get into house.
“A woman shouted out from the upstairs window asking what they were doing.
“One of them pulled out a gun. They didn’t seem to care.
“After it happened a lot of the neighbours came to check on her. We have a really close community around here. We look out for each other.
“But we’ve had other incidents around here, so people have got Ring doorbells.
“There’s never a dull moment around here. You hear a bang in the night and you wonder what’s next.
“It’s scary stuff. We don’t sleep much.”
The street, Christopher Court, was named after Christopher Kershaw, the soldier who died in Afghanistan in 2012.
One local said: “If his family knew what was happening here, I don’t know what they’d think.”
The area was sealed for a painstaking forensic examination.
Detective Chief Inspector Matt Holdsworth, of West Yorkshire Police, said: “Clearly any firearms discharge will cause some concern in the local community, and I would like to reassure members of the public that we take all firearms incidents extremely seriously and we have extensive enquiries underway to identify those responsible.
“Neighbourhood Patrols have been stepped up in the area to provide reassurance.”
The footage has caused outrage among locals in the city, which has been crowned the European City of Culture.
One posted: “Guns are getting daft in the UK now.
“Empty businesses everywhere all night long and they want to rob defenseless families with guns and knives while they’re asleep leaving people and young children with PTSD for the rest of there lives. Absolute cowards.”
