Locals have described a suspected knife-wielding man being tasered by police after three people were stabbed on a quiet London street.
A 49-year-old man died at the scene in Midhurst Gardens in Hillington, near Uxbridge, at around 5pm.
Two others – a 14-year-old boy and a 45-year-old man – were injured in the attack.
Met Police confirmed a 22-year-old Afghan migrant was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Locals said the assailant appeared on the road ‘waving a knife’ and that he attacked the 14-year-old boy and his father.
They added a man walking his dog tried to seperate them but was stabbed to death.
CCTV footage appears to show the moment police cars swing by the suspect who is calmly walking in the opposite direction.
Two officers approach him from behind with tasers raised and shout at him to put the weapon down.
Paul O’Brien, 50, who witnessed the arrest, toldMetro:‘It was chaos. I’ve never seen anything like it.
‘It was just people shouting, the police shouting “armed police drop your weapon”, the guy not dropping his weapon and then getting tasered.
‘He had his back to me and there were two police officers.
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‘They were walking towards him telling him to drop his weapon.
‘He had his hands up and had the weapon in his right hand and he was holding it up.’
He added that the blade the suspect was carrying could have been around 30cm long.
The victim was described by one Hillingdon local as ‘innocent’ and a ‘lovely man’.
Another local toldMetrothere was ‘lots of screaming’ when the attack took place.
The suspect was not injured and has since been taken into police custody, the Met said in a statement.
‘An investigation has been launched and urgent enquiries remain on-going,’ they said, urging anyone with information to contact them.
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