British police examine scene of mass shooting after gunman kills five, including 3yo
Record ID:
1632001
British police examine scene of mass shooting after gunman kills five, including 3yo
- Title: British police examine scene of mass shooting after gunman kills five, including 3yo
- Date: 13th August 2021
- Summary: PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (AUGUST 13, 2021) (REUTERS) ENTRANCE TO BEDECK DRIVE WHERE GUNMAN STARTED SHOOTING RAMPAGE POLICE VANS, FORENSICS TENT AND POLICE OFFICERS FORENSICS TENT SIGN ON CAR BONNET READING (English): "POLICE" POLICE CARS ON ROAD TAPE READING (English): "POLICE DO NOT CROSS" / FLOWERS FLOWERS AND TAPE IN FRONT OF ROAD SIGN READING (English) "BEDECK DRIVE" ROAD SIGN READING (English) "BEDECK DRIVE" POLICE VANS AND FORENSICS TENT VARIOUS OF POLICE AND OFFICIALS TALKING
- Embargoed: 27th August 2021 16:53
- Keywords: Biddick Drive British mass shooting Jake Davison Keyham shooting Plymouth shooting crime scene forensics
- Location: PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- City: PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,Europe
- Reuters ID: LVA001EQ46HXJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A man shot dead five people, including a 3-year-old girl, during a six-minute killing spree with a pump-action shotgun in the southern English city of Plymouth on Thursday (August 12) in what police believe was a case of domestic-related violence.
Mass shootings are rare in the United Kingdom, where gun ownership is relatively low, and Thursday's rampage was the worst such incident in more than decade.
Police on Friday (August 13) named the shooter as Jake Davison, a 22-year-old crane operator. He turned his gun on himself after killing the five victims on Thursday evening, the police said.
Devon and Cornwall Police Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer said police had found no motive but they were not considering terrorism or any far-right associations, although they were trawling through Division's computer.
The shooting started at about 6 p.m. on Thursday, first killing a 51-year-old woman whom Davison knew in a house. He then ran outside and immediately shot dead the young girl in the street along with her 43-year-old male relative.
Division shot at two other passers-by who were badly injured, then entered a park and shot dead another man before killing another woman.
He then turned the gun on himself before firearms officers could tackle him. The deadly shooting spree was over in just a few minutes.
Sawyer said witnesses described the weapon as a pump-action shotgun. He could not say whether or not Davison had mental health issues. Davison had a firearms licence.
In videos posted on the internet, Division had complained of not losing his virginity as a teenager and described himself as an "Intel" - or involuntary celibate. He complained in the videos of being beaten down by life, the Times reported.
Britain has suffered a number of deadly militant attacks in the past several years, but this was the worst mass killing of its kind since a taxi-driver killed 12 people then shot himself in a rampage in Cumbria, northern England, in June 2010.
The deadliest mass shooting in Britain's modern history is the 1996 massacre in Dunblane, Scotland, when a gunman killed 16 pupils and a teacher at the local school before killing himself.
Production: Gerry Mey, Will Russell - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
- Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2021. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
- Usage Terms/Restrictions: None