Gunman kills at least five in Cumbria rampage

[oveRSteer]

Earlier this morning word came through about the first shooting in our town, although nothing like this happens in this small town we assumed it was a one off between two people.

I set off in my pickup towards Egremont to buy some bolts for the TR, had my mate and 10 year old daughter on board, as we came down the main street in Egremont I commented how quiet it was, no one anywhere, next minute a LR Discovery pulls across infront of me and 2 coppers jump out and tell us to get off the street and indoors anywhere asap, the place we were going to was just 500 yards down the road so we decide to head there, unfortunately 200 yards down the road some poor bloke was dead on the pavement, my daughter was the first to spot the guy, I'm not afraid to say I was shaking by now, I spun the pickup round and we headed home as faast as the old Ranger would go.

The roads and town are deserted.

Not nice at the moment.

Son

****ing hell thats close to home not nice for anyone, letalone a 10yr old

[harry]

i was delivering about 5 miles away from boot,where he shot himself, at 13.30, very sad day in cumbria.

[fox2fox]

jesus,what next for cumbria?????

bloody hell!!! when i first heard this i shouted "jesus ruddy"!!!!!!! hope you and your daughter and your mate are ok...what is happening up there,flooding last year,bus crash last week,now this...its shocking,truely awfull.........

[GAZ W]

Terrible day

There has been some killings about 2 miles from me too today in a village called holbrook , Husband , wife and 22 month old baby

[Andyc]

And the w anker then went and shot him self he should of died a slow painful death t osser

[Nipper]

Absolute tragedy

[Martin]

This is a tragedy

My Michelle was in Carlisle hospital today and there was a flood of helicopters landing with the injured.

[oldskooljoe]

****ing hell paul

just watching it on the news now !!!!

[RUDDY]

Thanks for your thoughts guys, as you may gather there is a lot of talk going on up here at the moment amongst the locals, it is beleived that although the press are saying the taxi driver is the first killing there were already killings before he entered town. The news can account for 5 deaths today but there are 12 in total not including the culprit.

Looking at the time scales of things now known it is frighteneing to consider how close we were to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, we must have missed the shooting in Egremont by minutes.

Having seen the victims picture now on the news channels I did know of the lad and where he was killed is the best wee pie/sandwich shop in town, I often stood next to the lad in there because it is right beside the taxi rank where the shootings took place.

Whitehaven deserved to be noticed because it is a cracking wee town, and some good Escorts have circled the streets ,didn't want it on the map for this tho.

Cheers, Paul

[grum]

bloody hell mush, its the only thing people are talking about

hope your little gal is ok - let her talk about it whenever she wants - hope the image doesnt stay with her too long

[Dave1800BDA]

Thanks for your thoughts guys, as you may gather there is a lot of talk going on up here at the moment amongst the locals, it is beleived that although the press are saying the taxi driver is the first killing there were already killings before he entered town. The news can account for 5 deaths today but there are 12 in total not including the culprit.

Looking at the time scales of things now known it is frighteneing to consider how close we were to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, we must have missed the shooting in Egremont by minutes.

Having seen the victims picture now on the news channels I did know of the lad and where he was killed is the best wee pie/sandwich shop in town, I often stood next to the lad in there because it is right beside the taxi rank where the shootings took place.

Whitehaven deserved to be noticed because it is a cracking wee town, and some good Escorts have circled the streets ,didn't want it on the map for this tho.

Cheers, Paul

still shocked at watching this, surely not in our country
as said glad youre all ok
remember our little trip round the town you gave us, very quiet and a lovely port, cant imagine it being a scene of a shooting

[RS2000EXPRESS]

I'm very sorry to hear about your frightening experience and all the people that have suffered in your area today. I hope your little girl can put these nasty visions behind her soon.

Tim.

[IYK000]

The world is going mad we had a bloke stab his wife in a car parked at a petrol station and then set the car on fire what the f#@! is going on

[alancdavis]

Shocking

[alancdavis]

Terrible events

How do these people get permission to own guns like this ???