Blood in Plymouth, the massacre of the misogynistic 'Terminator'

A massacre born of domestic madness, of marginalization, of a blind raptus, but also of a background of hatred towards women. It is the common thread of the shooting that last night bloodied Plymouth, in the south west of England, and horrified the whole of the United Kingdom, leaving behind a death toll of 6 and 2 wounded. The killer, who committed suicide after killing two women, two men and a 3-year-old girl, now has a name, a surname and a profile: his name was Jake Davison, not even 23 years old, and he was afflicted with obvious psychic disorders revealed in a delusional 11-minute video that he himself released a couple of weeks ago (and in the meantime deleted from YouTube) in which he manifested anger, malaise, misogyny and sexual repression, not without posing as an emulator of "Terminator",the ruthless lethal humanoid played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1984 cult movie of the same name. The outlines of the story, much less common on the island than it happens in the States of America of easy weapons, emerged today with greater clarity in a press conference held by the leaders of the local Devon and Cornwall Police, while the investigation continues. Commander Shaun Sawyer has evoked "a truly extreme and shocking event" for this strip of English territory a stone's throw from the secluded Cornish peninsula; reiterating that the track "is not that of a matrix of terrorism or of links with organized groups of the extreme right" or of other ideological orientation. Rather than "a domestic accident"rampant in indiscriminate violence in the streets of Keyham, a historically working-class residential neighborhood close to the port area of ​​Plymouth. Davison, shown in the archive photos with his big, shady face as an overgrown teenager, framed by a bush of hair and a reddish beard, was unexpectedly in possession of a license. Although, apparently, not an authorization to use the deadly shotgun with which he went into action late yesterday afternoon: first by breaking into a house to kill a 51-year-old woman who " she had family ties with him ", as it later became known; then continuing to shoot at random inside and outside the building, shooting down a 43-year-old man with his 3-year-old daughter,a second adult man and another 66-year-old woman, the only one who did not die on the spot but in the hospital. A fiery hell, witnessed in terror by several eyewitnesses, completed by the wounding of another man and another woman, both now hospitalized in serious condition. Until Jake pointed the weapon at himself, before he could be intercepted, and got it over with.