LONDON: UK Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Cumbria where a taxi driver killed 10 people in a single hour during a shooting spree. Cameroon met the survivors of mass shooting and expressed grief over the deaths and other damages. Home Secretary Theresa May accompanied the prime minister during his visit.
"There will be some parts of this that we will never understand. There were some random acts of killings and people who will have lost loved ones will ask why it happened to them," Cameron said.
According to Craig Mackey, chief of police for the county of Cumbria, suspect Derrick Bird had killed “his twin brother and a family lawyer before departing on a 45-mile rampage across west Cumbria." Police said that the 52-year-old committed suicide after the attacks.
A friend of Bird, Mark Cooper, said the cabbie had told him he was being probed by the tax officials and that he did not want to go to jail. "He said, 'They have caught me with USD 88,00 in the bank, the tax people,'" Cooper said. "He just said, 'I'll go to jail.'" Cumbria Police said that Bird's financial status was one "ongoing line of inquiry."
"Our officers were on the scene within minutes but, due to Bird's knowledge of local roads, he had fled in his vehicle and was traveling south, firing shots along his way," Mackey said. The police chief said Bird "was firing shots out of his vehicle, moving from place to place."
"As far as we know, at no stage did any police officer have the chance to end this any sooner," Mackey said.
