Police identify the shooter who killed five people and himself in Plymouth, southwest England, in Britain's worst mass shooting in over a decade
Officers and ambulance staff were called to respond to a"serious firearms incident" in Biddick Drive, in the Keyham area of Plymouth, around 6:10 p.m. local time.A woman, a young girl, and two men were found dead at the scene, according to police. Another woman was treated for gunshot wounds at the scene and died a short time later in hospital. Police named the shooter as 22-year-old Jake Davison on Friday.
A massacre at a Scottish school in 1996 prompted country's government to tighten gun laws and ban most private gun ownership, and Thursday's incident is the deadliest of its kind since 2010, when a shooting spree in Cumbria, northern England, claimed 12 lives.People in Britain are allowed to apply for licenses to own a shotgun or sporting rifle. The suspected shooter was a licensed firearms holder, Sawyer said.Police have not yet established a motive.
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