Crazed Gunman kills 5 people in Lake District area

swannee7


Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 394

Message Posted:
02/06/2010 19:15

At least 5 people were reported killed and 25 more injured after a gunman randomly opened fire in several areas of West Cumbria.

Later, a body (thought to be that of the suspect killer who was a taxi driver) was found in an area of the Lake District.

What IS happening within our society ? Those poor, poor people and their devastated families.....

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
02/06/2010 19:20

Not far from where we live! glad I'm in Cyprus just now!



Scary stuff - you expect this kind of thing in America - not Whitehaven!

swannee7


Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 394

Message Posted:
02/06/2010 19:24

Apparently the first person he shot & killed was a good friend of his! The others were picked out at random, going about their business as he drove around. Seems the body IS that of the suspect shooter, taxi driver Derrick Bird. What a shock.....

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
02/06/2010 19:32

BBC News sorry to inform but 12 dead.



Richard

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
02/06/2010 19:33

!2 + 1, the gunman, 25 injured.



Richard

ang1706


Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 570

Message Posted:
02/06/2010 20:35

The summer must be affecting people in UK ,



Whats happened in Derbyshire, man, woman and 23 month old baby found dead!

swannee7


Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 394

Message Posted:
02/06/2010 23:10

Yes, Richard. Sadly the death toll was 'upped' since I posted. Regular TV prog 'Corrie' has been taken off tonight's listings because (I think) of the current storyline in that soap. Too close for comfort..... I saw a brief interview earlier with a Criminologist who said that incidents such as this, in Britain, are in fact rare events and that decades often separate them, compared with the USA and Finland for example. Not much comfort in that though.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
02/06/2010 23:16

Msg 7

What I can't understand is why another thread on this very said sad topic was opened after yours? AJ must be really on the ball tonight!

Anyway, all very tragic.



Richard

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 00:16

Jeaz thisis so sad, i had a text but dismissed it as another joke, i cant take this in xxxxx

marcosthechef



Joined: 30/11/2009
Posts: 646

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 00:51

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1283465/Lake-District-shooting-TWELVE-people-gunned-rampaging-Derrick-Bird-turned-weapon-himself.html

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 01:48

it is so sad for these people who live on the other side of the country to us. They have suffered the floods and then the coach crash with the school children and now this - my heart goes out to them.

BarbnBob



Joined: 06/09/2009
Posts: 96

Message Posted:
03/06/2010 09:32

Very very sad, my heart goes out to all the families involved.....................

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
17/06/2010 00:12

I'm originally from Whitehaven and most of my family live in Whitehaven or close by. Scary thing for me was that my cousin was walking down towards the street where the main shooting happened at the time (found out later off my auntie)