The Cumbria shootings was a shooting spree which occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, taxi driver Derrick Bird, killed twelve people and injured eleven others in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom.
20 Facts About Cumbria shootings
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The shootings ended when Bird killed himself in a wooded area after abandoning his car in the village of Boot.
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Cumbria shootings erroneously described Bird as being armed with an air rifle despite being able to hear the gunshots.
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Cumbria shootings then got out of his taxi and got into a struggle with Hughes before fatally shooting her in the back of the head with his rifle.
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Cumbria shootings then passed Carleton and travelled on to the village of Wilton.
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Cumbria shootings then drove back to Carleton and killed Isaac Dixon, a mole-catcher, who was fatally shot twice at close range as he was talking to a farmer in a field.
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Cumbria shootings shot a motorist named James "Jamie" Clark, who suffered a fatal wound to the head, although it was not clear at first whether he died from the gunshot or the subsequent car crash.
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Cumbria shootings was last seen alive at 12:30; shortly afterward, police confirmed that there had been fatalities and that they were searching for a suspect.
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The Cumbria shootings were considered the worst mass-casualty shooting incident in the UK since the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, which left 18 people dead.
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The police stated that the shootings took place along a 24 kilometres stretch of the Cumbrian coastline.
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Bird had been a licensed firearms holder, and the incident sparked debate about further gun control in the United Kingdom; the previous Dunblane and Hungerford Cumbria shootings had led to increased firearms controls.
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Cumbria shootings had a twin brother, David, and an older brother, Brian, who was six years older than Derrick and David.
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Cumbria shootings lived alone in Rowrah, Cumbria, and had two sons with a woman from whom he had separated in the mid-1990s.
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Cumbria shootings became a grandfather in May 2010, and was described as a quiet, popular man who worked as a self-employed taxi driver in Whitehaven.
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Cumbria shootings had held a shotgun certificate since 1974 and had renewed it several times, most recently in 2005, and had held a firearms certificate for a rifle from 2007 onward.
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Cumbria shootings's body was formally identified at Furness General Hospital in Barrow-in-Furness, and he was cremated at a private service on 18 June 2010.
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Cumbria shootings was convicted and given a twelve-month suspended sentence.
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Cumbria shootings reportedly believed his brother and the solicitor were conspiring to send him to prison for tax evasion; in the three days before the killings, Bird called his brother forty-four times.
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On 9 June 2010, a week after the incident, memorial services were held in the West Cumbria towns affected by the shootings followed by a minute's silence at midday.
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The minute's silence for the Cumbria shootings victims was marked prior to David Cameron's second Prime Minister's Questions in Parliament.