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West Midlands Police have launched a murder investigation after officers were called to Lilleshall Crescent, in the Graiseley area of the city, at around 12.15am, to reports of a shooting. A man, aged 30, was pronounced dead a short time later. The incident follows a spate of other shooting incidents in the city in recent weeks - including a 19-year-old being rushed to hospital with a gunshot leg wound from a shooting in Peel Street Car Park and two men being fatally shot inside a vehicle in Whitmore Reans. Now, residents are demanding more action against gun violence in the city at a 'higher level'. Daniel Renshaw who lives in Phoenix Park which was itself the scene of an assault in which a man died this week said: "There seems to be a lot of incidents within a one mile radius recently.