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Fact #93048

When:

22072005

Short story:

A Brazilian man, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot and killed by Metropolitan Police officers at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground. He had been misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts. The 2010 song One Bell Ringing by Elvis Costello is about this incident.