Police have released an image of a car they want to trace after a man was shot dead near a petrol station in West Yorkshire.

Officers received a report at 9:43pm on Tuesday that a man had been seriously injured after a shot was fired from a car on Doncaster Road near the BP petrol station in Wakefield.

The victim was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries.

Police said he is understood to be a 50-year-old man who was living in the local area.

A murder investigation has been launched and the victim's immediate family are being supported by specially-trained officers.

The force said it believes the vehicle used in the offence was "on false plates" and was stolen in a burglary in Castleford, West Yorkshire, on 3 August.

Police believe the car is a blue/grey-coloured Toyota RAV

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