Police have launched a murder investigation after a man was fatally shot close to a petrol station.

West Yorkshire Police officers were called to a report at 9.43pm on Tuesday that a man had been seriously injured after a shot was fired from a vehicle in Wakefield.

The force said it believed the vehicle used in the offence on Doncaster Road, near the BP petrol station, was “on false plates and was stolen in a burglary in Castleford on August 3”.

The victim was rushed to hospital, but died from his injuries.

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

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The man’s immediate family have been made aware and are being offered support by specially

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