British police identified on Friday August 13 the 22-year-old man suspected of having shot dead five people, including a girl, in Plymouth (south-west of England).
Among the other victims: two women aged 51 and 66 and two men aged 43 and 59 were killed, Devon and Cornwall police said.
Two injured are treated in hospital but their injuries are not considered serious.
The alleged perpetrator ended his life in the UK's worst shooting in over a decade.
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According to the first elements of the investigation, Jake Davison is suspected of having killed, with a weapon described by witnesses as being a pump rifle, a woman of his family before going out in the street, of killing four other people and injure two others. He turned the gun on him before police, who arrived at the scene six minutes after being called, were unable to intervene, Devon and Cornwall Police Chief Shaun Sawyer said in a statement. press conference. "
We do not envisage the terrorist track or link with an extreme right-wing group,
" he said, saying that we favor the domestic track. Shortly after the police confirmed the death toll, local MP Luke Pollard said thatone of the victims was "
a child under ten
".
Mass killings remain rare in the UK, where most police officers do not carry firearms.
The country passed some of the strictest gun-carrying laws in the world following the Dunblane shooting in Scotland in 1996, when 16 schoolchildren were killed within minutes.
The police official clarified that the alleged perpetrator of the Plymouth shooting held a license to carry a weapon and that his accounts on social networks, where the British media have gleaned elements suggesting psychological difficulties would be studied.
"No more will"
On a Youtube account under the name Professor Waffle, deleted in the morning, we see the young man complaining about his difficulties in meeting women and losing weight, describing himself as "
fat
" and "
virgin
" and doing bodybuilding . "
I no longer have any will to do anything
," he said in the last video posted, regretting to be "
still in the same house, the same situation, the same position
". With this account, he "
liked
" videos on firearms and followed a channel on the misogynist movement "
Incel
(Abbreviation of involuntarily celibate), at the origin of violence in the United States.
On Twitter, Home Secretary Priti Patel described “
shocking
”
facts
while Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed his thoughts to the relatives of the victims of this “
tragic incident
”.
It was the deadliest shooting in the country since 2010. Law enforcement and emergency services were deployed en masse after being called at 6:11 p.m. to a residential area in Plymouth, a town of about 262,000 inhabitants located in the peaceful county of Devon and home to the largest naval base in Western Europe.
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In local media, residents said they heard loud bangs and gunshots before the police arrived. Sharron, a witness who only agreed to reveal her first name to the BBC, said she heard screams followed by several gunshots. “
The gunman broke down the door of a house and started shooting,
” she said. "
He came out of the house, continuing to shoot and continued to shoot people in the street
." Robert Pinkerton, a second witness, told British TV station that he "
turned around the corner
" and "
stumbled upon a guy with a rifle
" dressed all in black.