The streets of Britain's Birmingham were eerily quiet hours after rioting over the alleged sexual assault on a black girl left a 23-year-old man dead and 35 people injured.
Officers were out patrolling the areas of Lozells and Handsworth, after clashes broke out on Saturday night.
Violence erupted after residents attended a public meeting addressing concerns about an unconfirmed sex attack on a 14-year-old Jamaican girl, said to be an illegal immigrant.
The alleged assault has sparked a week of mounting tension among the area's black and Asian communities in the Lozells area, mostly hailing from Pakistan, culminating in the outbreak.
Shops and pubs were ransacked and cars set on fire during the clash, which is thought to have involved up to 50 rioters. Hundreds of police in riot gear were attacked with bricks and bottles. An officer was shot with a ball-bearing gun.
The dead man, of Afro-Caribbean origin, received a single fatal stab wound in Carlisle Road. The attack is thought to have been the catalyst for the night of 'extreme violence'.
A British Pakistani taxi driver suffered serious head injuries when his car was set upon by masked attackers, throwing house bricks through the windows. On Sunday, the wrecked car stood outside the man's house, a pile of blood-stained bricks on the front and passenger seats.
By the end of a night punctuated on at least 12 occasions by gunfire, one man was dead, 35 injured and 20 hospitalised, including three with stab wounds.
At least a dozen homes and businesses were ransacked in the worst racial violence to have hit Britain's second city since the Handsworth riots in 1985.
A police officer was shot in the leg with a ball-bearing gun. He is said to be in a stable condition. Five people were arrested in connection with the disorder.
A further five people were released on police bail, after being questioned over allegations of a sexual assault on another woman who came forward following the publicity over the alleged attack on the girl.
Nine people remained in hospital on Sunday after being treated for injuries suffered in the disturbances, a hospital spokesman said.
Detective Superintendent Dave Mirfield, leading the murder hunt, said police had received 12 reports of gunfire during the disturbances, 80 crimes were reported, with 35 people taken to hospital.
Police said there was 'a lot of rumour, myth and speculation' about the rape allegation but no victim had come forward.
West Midlands Police said Sunday night that an exhaustive investigation had yet to find any evidence that the assault of the girl had taken place and the alleged victim had yet to come forward.
Supporters say her status as an illegal immigrant means she is too afraid to do so.
