Bloodbath on Scots street as locals report 'screams for help' before man found dead
15.05.2023 - 13:53
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Locals have told how they heard 'screams for help' amid a bloodbath on a Scots street where a man was found dead.
Police were called to Tennant Street in Renfrew around 4.20pm on Saturday, following reports of an injured man. Officers attended but a 35-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 34-year-old man has been charged in connection with the incident and is expected to appear in court on Monday. Pictures from the scene show bloody handprints smeared on the window of a ground floor property on Tennant Street.
Other images showed police standing guard after the area was locked down, with evidence markers lining the street.
The walls of the tenement building and parts of the pavement were also stained red with blood. Officers were then spotted at a property on nearby Campbell Street, where police tape was stuck over a door.
Police Scotland have since confirmed the activity on Campbell Street is linked to the Tennant Street incident. Locals told the Record how they heard a man shouting for help shortly before emergency services descended on the scene.
One neighbour said: "We heard someone shouting for help but you hear that quite often, kids messing around and that. Then only a minute after that we heard all these sirens - so many sirens.
“The ambulances and the police arrived at a similar time and there were doctors in red overalls. I think there were three ambulances and some kind of incident response team, and about five or six police cars.
“It was quite quickly cordoned off, they wouldn’t let people through. It became apparent the ambulances weren’t going to go anywhere.
“Then about half an hour later the police ran up to Campbell Street and we could hear them knocking and shouting to let them in. It sounded like