Huddersfield 
A taxi driver was injured after a gunman blasted at his car in a 'targeted' attack on his passengers.
The victim - an innocent man caught up in the spiralling gun crime across Huddersfield - suffered non-life threatening injuries after the gunman opened fire in Holays in Dalton just after 8:50pm on Thursday.
Armed officers then swooped on the area and carried out a search of a house in Crossfields.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested and is currently being quizzed.
Residents reported hearing three gunshots before the taxi sped off with a door open. They said there were four or five men in another car who carried out the attack.
Armed police were called to Dalton last night
One woman, who does not want to be named, said a white taxi was parked next to a road hump and green fields when it was targeted.
She said: “My daughter said it looked like a gun had been fired at the taxi and the windscreen was shattered. The taxi driver drove off with his door wide open. We don’t know what happened to him – if he has been injured or even if he has reported it to the police. There were four or five men there and they then drove off in a car. It all happened so fast. ”
She revealed that shortly after 9pm a silver car was seen cruising down Harpe Inge with a balaclava-clad man at the wheel.
“I don’t know if the two incidents are linked,” said the woman. “It certainly looked like he was looking for someone.”
Gunman opened fire in Holays in Dalton just after 8:50pm on Thursday.
That area of Harpe Inge has not been cordoned off.
Just an hour later another shots were fired about three miles away in Deighton.
In that incident shots were fired at a car in New House Road. Officers have now recovered a VW Golf that was hit by bullets and said it is believed the gunmen were on foot and fled onto Belle Vue Crescent before possibly jumping into a car.
Residents in Deighton said armed police swarmed the area after the shots were fired.
Police continue to investigate after 'gun' fired at house in Fixby
The two shootings come in a week of firearms incidents. On Saturday shots were fired in Rawthorpe and Sunday a door was damaged in a shooting in Fixby.
Armed police were also called to an incident on Riddings Road in Deighton on Monday night where a car was seen driving into another and neighbours reported hearing of a gunshot noise.
Police have said there is no evidence a gun was fired in the incident on Riddings Road.
Huddersfield's most senior police officer has now said investigating gun crime is their number one priority.
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