'I just heard gun shots, bang, bang, bang...then a big explosion' says window cleaner Everybody was in shock and couldn't believe it. It must have been a matter of minutes, more police cars came and an ambulance came. Mr Shepherd said he went back to his van but could see the aftermath through a gap between two houses. He added: "I saw one body covered up and going into the back of the ambulance. I saw another body on a trolley and it looked like they were doing heart compressions on the body, and I had had enough by then. It was like something on the movies. It's just so sad for the family of the two police women. Both lost their lives just doing their jobs and my heart goes out to their families and I know people around here will feel the same. A 27-year-old woman, who did not want to be named, said her ex-boyfriend witnessed the shootings. She said it happened outside the address of a man who, she said, knew Cregan. She said: "He (her ex-boyfriend) was a bit shook up when I saw him." She said he was walking back from the doctor's when he heard someone he knew shout to him, adding: "Then someone has come outside the house ... and shot two officers and then he threw a grenade in the garden. He (her ex-boyfriend) said the officers hit the floor. Cregan then got into a silver BMW and drove off but he must have then gone on foot shortly after because my friend saw him on Stringer Avenue, which is only down the road. Mr Shepherd said the house where the incident took place was the former home of a customer of his, an elderly woman who died about six months ago. The property, a council house, had been left empty but there had been some recent activity, with the windows covered in whitewash suggesting the house was being decorated