Detectives are searching for a "dangerous" man with a knife who was seen fleeing the scene of the death of an 87-year-old man on a scooter.
Thomas O'Halloran was killed in a "shocking act of violence" around 4 pm on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said.
Police were summoned to Caton Road,Greenford, west London, where a stabbing was reported and a charity fundraiser was declared dead at the scene.
Detectives have released images of a man claiming to identify him as a "urgent matter."
He was armed with a knife and wore gray shorts, a dark T-his shirt, a white baseball cap, and white-patterned builder-his style gloves.
Detective Chief Inspector Jim Eastwood, who is leading the investigation, said: Information on his whereabouts.
Chief Superintendent Sean Wilson, speaking at the scene early Wednesday, said:
"We were able to name a man who tragically lost his life as Mr. Thomas O'Halloran. He lives in Greenford and is very well known and loved in our community."
Thomas O'Halloran, 87, was stabbed to death on Tuesday while riding a mobility scooter on Cayton Road in Greenford, west London ( Metropolitan Police/PA)
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"For anyone with dash camera or cycle helmet footage that may have captured this incident,
"Mr. O'Halloran was stabbed on Western Avenue yesterday, Tuesday, August 16, shortly before 4:00 pm, and traveled about 75 yards to Runnymede Gardens, where he
According to a friend who did not want to be named, he was attacked en route to the Basque Country.
He told the PA news agency:
O'Halloran is said to be known locally for busking outside Greenford Station and is said to be raising money for war-torn Ukraine.
Former Labor Member of Parliament Stephen Pound paid tribute to Mr O'Halloran on his accordion.
Former MP next to GB News. Much loved, but above all he was one of the characters that solidified the region. "It's not a dangerous place," he said, adding that it would cause "hurts" in the Ealing community.
A man believed to be Mr. playing the instrument in a scathing YouTube video captioned "A few songs on the accordion".
O'Halloran, who said on Facebook that he is from Ennistimon, County Clare, West Ireland Ireland, wore a hat and glasses in the video and said: Get ready, good luck before he starts playing
CCTV (Metropolitan Police Department/PA) of man fleeing Thomas O'Halloran stabbing scene
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A man who works at a newsagent outside Greenford Station said:
"He came every day for a long time, at least two years. He usually busked around five o'clock."
I was playing," he said.
Frasley Coutinho, who lives on the other side of the attack, said he saw the victim surrounded by a group of boys.
He said: "I saw some people gathered around him. And he passed and stopped further up. And around him was a group of young boys.
There have been 58 murders in London so far this year.
