'He's got a f****** gun...': Gunman opened fire at house and taxi office
08.06.2022 - 19:37
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A gunman who opened fire at two separate shootings faces a lengthy jail sentence. Aaron Gray, 25 pulled the trigger at a taxi office in Salford then shot at a house in Whitefield months later.
No-one was hurt in either incident. Prosecutors alleged that Gray was the gunman and that 28-year-old drug dealer Dominic Hughes was also involved.
Both were convicted of involvement and face lengthy spells in jail. Another man, 29-year-old Benjamin Yates, was acquitted of being part of the Salford shooting.
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Manchester Crown Court heard that a woman was working at the Swan taxis office on Church Street in Eccles at about 10pm on December 8, 2019. After hearing a 'loud bang' at the door, she went to check who was there.
"She looked through the window and she saw there was a man stood with a gun," prosecutor Andrew Ford QC told jurors "He was pointing the barrel of the gun towards her."
Mr Ford said the woman shouted to a colleague: "He's got a f****** gun." Shortly after she heard a 'loud bang'. "It need hardly be said, it was terrifying," Mr Ford said.
Police recovered a single 9mm fired cartridge case. Officers later recovered a Glock pistol found 'dumped' in a wheelie bin nearby. Both Gray and Hughes were forensically linked to the firearm.
A second shooting occurred in the early hours of February 25, 2020, at a house on Coniston Avenue in Whitefield. The occupants, a couple and their housemate, heard a 'loud bang' at about 1.35am which sounded like a 'gunshot'.
The following morning they noticed that the front living room window had been damaged, after a bullet had been fired through the living room at