Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police sparked London's riots, did not fire a shot at police officers before they killed him, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said on Tuesday. 
 
 Releasing the initial findings of ballistics tests, the police watchdog said a CO19 firearms officer fired two bullets, and that a bullet that lodged in a police radio was "consistent with being fired from a police gun". 
 
 One theory, not confirmed by the IPCC, is that the bullet became lodged in the radio from a ricochet or after passing through Duggan. 
 
 Duggan, 29, was killed last Thursday in Tottenham, north London, after armed officers stopped the minicab in which he was travelling. 
 
 The IPCC said Duggan was carrying a loaded gun, but it had no evidence that the weapon had been fired. It said tests were continuing. 
 
 The officer who fired the fatal shots has been removed from firearms duties, which is standard procedure, pending the IPCC investigation. 
 
 Officers from the Met's Operation Trident and Special Crime Directorate 11, accompanied by officers from CO19, the Met's specialist firearms command, stopped the silver Toyota Estima minicab in Ferry Lane, close to Tottenham Hale tube station, to arrest Duggan. 
 
 He was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest, and received a second gunshot wound to his right bicep. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 6.41pm. 
 
 The IPCC's statement said the bullet lodged in the police radio was a "jacketed round". This is a police-issue bullet and is "consistent with having been fired from a [police] Heckler and Koch MP5", it said. 
 
 The non-police firearm found at the scene was a converted BBM Bruni self-loading pistol. The gun was found to have a "bulleted cartridge" in the magazine, which is being subjected to further forensic tests. 
 
 The officer whose radio was hit was taken to Homerton hospital where he was examined and discharged later that night. The minicab driver was not injured but was badly shaken by what he saw, the IPCC said. His account, as well as those of the officers, is being examined along with the forensic evidence. 
 
 The police watchdog said it was examining CCTV footage of the area, including from buses passing by at the time. 
 
 The statement said: "Our investigators will be examining recordings of radio transmissions from both police and London ambulance service, including 999 calls, with a view to tracing further witnesses. We will also be examining any intelligence and surveillance material leading up to the planning of the operation." 
 
 The IPCC commissioner Rachel Cerfontyne said: "Any concerns expressed by the wider public about a perceived lack of information from the IPCC should be considered in the context that I am only willing to share information once I have had it independently verified and once the people who are directly involved in this case – including Mr Duggan's family and community leaders – have been fully informed." 
 
 An inquest into Duggan's death was opened at north London coroner's court on Tuesday. The coroner, Andrew Walker, adjourned the hearing to 12 December and offered his sympathies to Duggan's family. 
 
 "As members of the family will know, in due course there will be an inquest touching the death of Mark Duggan and this is the first stage in that process, he said. "Of course, as well as offering our deepest sympathies, I would like to reassure members of the family that we will be working closely with Mr Duggan's family and the IPCC throughout the process." 
 
 After the hearing, the family said they were "distressed" by the rioting in the wake of his death. In a statement on their behalf, Helen Shaw, from the organisation Inquest, said: "The family want everyone to know that the disorder going on has nothing to do with finding out what has happened to Mark. They also want people to know they are deeply distressed by the disorder affecting communities across the country." ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Police try to tackle masked youths in Manchester 
 
 Sporadic violence has broken out in several cities around England, although London stayed largely quiet overnight. 
 
 There was unrest in cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham, with shops being looted and set alight. 
 
 Three men died when they were hit by a car in Birmingham - locals claimed they were protecting their neighbourhood. 
 
 Greater Manchester Police's assistant chief constable said officers had faced "unprecedented levels of violence". 
 
 London Mayor Boris Johnson urged the government to reconsider its plans to cut police numbers, saying the argument had been "substantially weakened" by the riots. 
 
 GMP's ACC Garry Shewan said he had seen "the most sickening scenes" of his career, and said the force had been overwhelmed. 
 
 Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday morning he said GMP was "absolutely intent" on bringing the rioters to justice and officers were already studying CCTV. 
 
 "Hundreds and hundreds of people, we have your image, we have your face, we have your acts of wanton criminality on film. We are coming for you, from today and no matter how long it takes, we will arrest those people responsible," he said. 
 
 Some 113 people have been arrested so far over the trouble in Manchester and Salford, where hundreds of youths looted shops and set fire to cars and buildings. 
 
 Three dead 
 
 In the West Midlands, 109 have been arrested and 23 charged following scenes of disorder in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich - where vehicles were set on fire. 
 
 Meanwhile, West Midlands Police have started a murder inquiry after the deaths of the three pedestrians hit by a car. 
 
 In Birmingham, riot police surrounded the Mailbox, the city's upmarket shopping centre, following the disturbances seen in the area on Monday night. 
 
 In other developments: 
 
 Wounded officers 
 
 Scotland Yard drafted in special constables and community support officers in London to ensure five times the usual number of officers for a Tuesday - 16,000 - were on duty. They made 81 arrests. 
 
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 Downing Street said the increased level of policing would remain in place "as long as necessary" to prevent a repeat of the violence. 
 
 It said while there was "no complacency," police tactics in London had "clearly worked". 
 
 It followed three nights of rioting in the city which saw shops looted, property set alight and police attacked, with some 111 Met officers suffered injuries including serious head and eye wounds, cuts and fractured bones after being attacked by rioters wielding bottles, planks, bricks and even driving cars at them. Five police dogs have also been hurt. 
 
 The Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Stephen Kavanagh said London deserved "some resilience and sustainability from police". 
 
 'Stand together' 
 
 David Cameron, who is chairing a meeting of the cabinet's emergency committee Cobra for the second day running, met officers in the Met Police's Gold command in Lambeth on Tuesday afternoon, before speaking to emergency service personnel in Croydon. 
 
 He condemned the "sickening scenes of people looting, vandalising, thieving, robbing". 
 
 He told rioters: "You will feel the full force of the law. And if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishment." 
 
 Parliament was being recalled on Thursday, which would allow MPs to "stand together in condemnation of these crimes and to stand together in determination to rebuild these communities", he said. 
 
 The prime minister returned early from his holiday in Tuscany to discuss the unrest, which first flared on Saturday after a peaceful protest in Tottenham over the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan, 29, by police. 
 
 London has seen a wave of "copycat criminal activity" since the initial disturbance, the Met Police said. 
 
 DAC Kavanagh said the use of plastic bullets - never before fired to deal with riots in England - would be "considered carefully" in the event of further disorder. 
 
 But he added: "That does not mean we are scared of using any tactic." 
 
 Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin had earlier ruled out calling in the Army. 
 
 Officers believe some rioters have used Blackberry Messenger - a service allowing users to send free real-time messages - to organise violence. 
 
 Referring to proposed police cuts, London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "That case was pretty frail and it's been substantially weakened. This is not a time to think about making substantial cuts in police numbers." 
 
 Labour leader Ed Miliband called for a "rapid response" from the government to help affected communities. 
 
 He urged the government to work with the insurance industry "to put in place fast-track procedures with immediate effect so that individuals and businesses making claims do not have to wait for the money they need to start putting things right". 
 
 The Association of British Insurers says the damage is likely to cost insurers "tens of millions of pounds". 
 
 Monday's disturbances included: 
 
 The Association of British Insurers says the damage is likely to cost insurers "tens of millions of pounds". 
 
 Monday's violence started in Hackney, north London, at about 16:20 BST after a man was stopped and searched by police, who found nothing. 
 
 Groups of people began attacking officers, wrecking cars with wooden poles and metal bars, and looting shops. Violence then flared separately in other parts of the capital. 
 
 Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who also cut short a holiday to return, was heckled by the members of the public while viewing damage in Clapham Junction on Tuesday. 
 
 Some people have complained there have been too few police to deal with the violence. 
 
 Mr Johnson told those gathered that those responsible for the violence "face punishment they will bitterly, bitterly regret". 
 
 However, when challenged to do more for communities, Mr Johnson rejected "economic or social justifications" for the violence.
– The man whose death at the hands of police prompted London’s massive riots did not shoot at the cops, a public investigatory body has concluded. Though Mark Duggan had a loaded gun, there was no evidence he fired it, the watchdog group said. A bullet stuck in a police radio was “consistent with being fired from a police gun,” and a firearms officer shot twice; he has been called off firearms work as the investigation continues, the Guardian reports. Duggan, 29, was riding in a minicab on Thursday in north London when firearms officers stopped the car to arrest him. He was killed by a shot to the chest and pronounced dead at the scene. The watchdog group is continuing to investigate and a coroner’s office is launching an inquest. Meanwhile, London authorities are taking action to block a fourth night of rioting, with 16,000 police now on the streets, the BBC reports.