Neighbour describes fighting to save life of man shot in the head in Crabtree, Peterborough
One of the first people on the scene of the shooting spoke to ITV News Anglia
An eyewitness has described the chilling moment he discovered a man who had been shot in the back of the head, then fought to save his life.
Grant Wilson was one of the first people on the scene following the shooting in the Crabtree area of Peterborough in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The victim suffered a gunshot to the back of his head and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Police later confirmed that he had died just after 8pm on Wednesday, and named his as 29-year-old Mihai Dobre.
Mr Wilson said he was alerted to the shooting by a woman screaming. When he rushed out to help, she told him to call an ambulance.
"As I was on the phone to the ambulance, I was looking but I couldn't really see so I turned the lights on in my car and then I could see - I could literally see it - that he'd been shot in the back of the head.
"The paramedics were telling me to put pressure on the wound, so that's what I did.
"It took about 20 minutes for the police to arrive and then for the ambulances as well. It was just devastating."
Mr Wilson said he was still coming to terms with what had happened, describing it as "just mad".
"Just seeing all that, I just can't get it out of my mind.... I just can't get it out of my head," he said.
Crime scene investigators were at the scene throughout Wednesday in an attempt to understand what happened.
A tent has been erected over a car that is believed to be the one the victim was driving when he was shot.
Calls to the police started coming in at 12.34am on Wednesday after people heard the gunshots. Mr Wilson's brother, Mark Wilson, was also in the area at the time.
He said: "I just remember hearing the screaming and at first I thought it must be a domestic or something, but when I looked I saw my brother trying to help, putting pressure on the wound. When I told my girlfriend that someone had been shot outside, she was sick."
No arrests have so far been made but police officers have said that they do not believe there to be a wider risk to the public.