![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/tesco-shoppers-stunned-as-gangland-killer-tackled-to-ground-by-police-at-checkout/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_Tesco-shoppers-stunned-as-gangland-killer-is-tackled-by-police-at-checkout.jpg&description=Footage shows the dramatic capture of Connor Chapman by plain-clothed police as he stood by a till at a Tesco supermarket in Wales were he had fled following the murder of Elle Edwards at a Wirral pub Footage shows the moment police swarmed on a Tesco supermarket to arrest Connor Chapman for the murder of Elle Edwards as he stood at the checkout. The popular beautician was shot dead aged 26 outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey, Wirral, on Christmas Eve last year. She was inadvertently struck by stray bullets fired by 23-year-old Chapman as he attempted to gun down members of a rival gang. After learning he was a wanted man following the fatal shooting, Chapman fled to Penllywyn Lodges in Mid Wales in what was described as a "romantic getaway" with his girlfriend. But police traced him to the Tesco store in Newtown, Powys, on January 10. CCTV footage from inside the supermarket, released by Merseyside Police, shows him stood beside the till having unloaded several items from a basket and then he is surrounded by at least five plain clothes officers, who wrestle him to the floor and detain him. Liverpool Crown Court previously heard the career criminal and self-confessed cocaine dealer lurked outside the busy pub for nearly three hours before carrying out the shooting. Elle was seen on CCTV inside the Lighthouse happily chatting with friends before going outside for a cigarette at 11.47pm. Minutes later, the gunman emerged from the shadows and fired a volley of shots towards a group stood by the entrance to the Lighthouse with the military grade Skorpion submachine gun. He then immediately went to the home of his 20-year-old "criminal associate" Thomas Waring, who was said to have taken custody of the gun before helping to torch the car a week later on New Year's Eve. The intended targets of the shooting were said to have been Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, the former having been stood next to "wholly innocent" Elle when Chapman unleashed his hail of bullets. She wa){kind=link}
Footage shows the dramatic capture of Connor Chapman by plain-clothed police as he stood by a till at a Tesco supermarket in Wales, where he had fled following the murder of Elle Edwards at a Wirral pub
Horrified shoppers looked on as a seemingly innocent man was tackled to the ground as he tried to pay for his shopping.
Little did they know that man was an on-the-run killer trying to sneak away from police for a romantic retreat.
And those who pounced on him were in fact undercover officers who had been tracking his every move on CCTV.
Connor Chapman was by the till at a Tesco in Newtown, Powys, having fled following the murder of Elle Edwards, when he was jumped on by the plain-clothed police.