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Man Kills 5, Himself in UK’s First Mass Shooting in Decade<\/a><\/p>\n LONDON (AP) \u2014 A young man who killed five people, including his mother, and then took his own life in Britain\u2019s first mass shooting in over a decade had complained online about difficulties meeting women and being \u201cbeaten down\u201d by life.<\/p>\n Police said Friday the motive for the shootings was unclear but there were no immediate signs that the crime was an act of terrorism or the 22-year-old gunman had connections to extremist groups.<\/p>\n They identified the shooter as Jake Davison, 22, and said he had a gun license, but revealed few other details. Witnesses reported that he used a pump-action shotgun, police said, though they wouldn’t confirm what type of weapon it was and whether it was the one Davison was licensed to use.<\/p>\n Gun crimes are rare in Britain, which has strict firearm control rules.<\/p>\n Police responded to multiple emergency calls at 6:11 p.m. Thursday arrived six minutes later at an address in Plymouth’s Keyham neighborhood, where Davison had shot and killed his mother, 51-year-old Maxine Davison, also known as Maxine Chapman.<\/p>\n According to police accounts, Davison left the house and immediately shot and killed a 3-year-old girl, Sophie Martyn, and her father, Lee Martyn, 43. He then shot and wounded two other people down the street whom police haven’t identified.<\/p>\n Police said Davison moved on to a park where he shot Stephen Washington, 59, who died at the scene, and then to a nearby street, where he shot Kate Shepherd, 66 on a nearby street. She died later in hospital.<\/p>\n Eyewitnesses reported that Davison shot himself before police arrived. He was licensed to use a gun last year and police are checking whether he had the license before then.<\/p>\n Shaun Sawyer, chief constable for Devon and Cornwall police, told reporters that investigators are not sure what Davison’s motive was and keeping open minds but do not think extremist ideology prompted the attack.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s see what\u2019s on his hard drive, let\u2019s see what\u2019s on his computer, let\u2019s see what’s on social media,” Sawyer said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe we have an incident that is domestically related that has spilled into the street and seen several people of Plymouth lose their lives in an extraordinarily tragic circumstance,” he added.<\/p>\n Davison appeared to post on YouTube under the name Professor Waffle in an account that has now been taken down, replaced by a notice saying it violated the site\u2019s community guidelines. In a final 11-minute clip posted before the killings, \u201cProfessor Waffle\u201d talks about how he was \u201cbeaten down and defeated by…life.\u201d<\/p>\n He talks about struggling to stay motivated at working out and losing weight, working as a scaffolder when he was 17-18, and hinted at his lack of a love life by referring to \u201cpeople who are incels\u201d \u2014 shorthand for \u201cinvoluntarily celibate.”<\/p>\n The \u201cincel\u201d movement justifies violence against women as revenge for men who are rejected as sexual partners, and believes society unjustly denies men sexual or romantic attention. The online subculture has been linked to deadly attacks in California, Toronto and Florida. Davison said that while he wouldn\u2019t describe himself as an \u201cincel,\u201d they are \u201cpeople similar to me, they\u2019ve had nothing but themselves, and then they\u2019ve socially had it tough.\u201d<\/p>\n He compared himself to a businessman struggling to break even despite working long hours but who has a wife and kids supporting him.<\/p>\n \u201cDoes an incel virgin get that? No,” he said.<\/p>\n Britain’s last mass shooting was in 2010, when a taxi driver killed 12 people in Cumbria in northwest England before taking his own life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strict laws absolutely will not stop someone bent on mayhe Man Kills 5, Himself in UK’s First Mass Shooting in Decade LONDON (AP) \u2014 A young man who killed five people, including his mother, and then took his own life in Britain\u2019s first mass shooting in over a decade had complained online about difficulties meeting … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70784,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70783\/revisions\/70784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}