iPad submerged 5 years in London's River Thames helps unlock murder plot

(NEXSTAR) - The iPad was covered in dark mud after five years at the bottom of England's longest river, the Thames, but it was the chip inside that helped police crack a five-year-old murder plot.

The case dates back to July 11, 2019 when six bullets slammed through back doors and windows of an upscale East London home, striking a 45-year-old man standing in the kitchen, nearly killing him. That man, identified by the BBC as a rival named Paul Allen, was left paralyzed after a bullet struck him in the spinal cord.