British police on Friday identified the 22-year-old man suspected of killing five people, including a girl, before committing suicide the day before in Plymouth, south-west England. It is the worst shooting the UK has seen in over ten years.
According to the first elements of the investigation, Jake Davison is suspected of having killed, with a weapon described by witnesses as a pump action rifle, a woman in his family before going out into the street, killing four other people and injure. other two.
The return to the police against the police, arriving on the lieux six minutes after the appeal, cannot intervene, at the request of the chef of the Devon et des Cornouailles police, Shaun Sawyer, lors d’une Press conference.
“We do not imagine the terrorist route or the link with a group of the extreme right,” he said, saying that we favor the national route.
Shortly after police confirmed the death toll, local MP Luke Pollard said one of the victims was “a child under the age of ten.”
Mass killings remain rare in the UK, where most police officers do not carry firearms. The country passed some of the strictest gun laws in the world after the Dunblane shooting in Scotland in 1996, when 16 schoolchildren died within minutes.
The police official clarified that the alleged perpetrator of the Plymouth shooting had a license to carry a weapon and that his accounts on social networks, where the British media collected elements that suggested that psychological difficulties would be studied.
On a YouTube account by the name of Professor Waffle, deleted in the morning, we see the young man complaining about his difficulties meeting women and losing weight, describing himself as “fat” and “virgin” and doing bodybuilding. “I no longer feel like doing anything,” he said in the last video posted, regretting being “still in the same house, the same situation, the same position.”
With this account, he “liked” videos about firearms and followed a channel about the misogynist movement “Incel” (short for involuntary celibacy), at the origin of violence in the United States.
On Twitter, Interior Minister Priti Patel described “shocking” events, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson directed his thoughts to the families of the victims of this “tragic incident”. It is the deadliest shooting in the country since 2010.