The Hungerford massacre was a spree shooting in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which occurred on 19 August 1987 when 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot and killed sixteen people, including his mother an
Michael Ryan in 1986
The Golden Arrow petrol station near Froxfield, Wiltshire, where Ryan attempted to shoot the cashier (pictured in 2010)
After shooting dead Marcus Barnard, Ryan headed north on Priory Avenue (away from the camera)
Ryan shot at helicopters from the classroom at the top-right of the three-storey building
The Cumbria shootings were a spree shooting and mass shooting that occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, taxi driver Derrick Bird, killed twelve people and injured eleven others across multiple
Hungerford massacre
…and restricting the use of shotguns with a capacity of more than three cartridges. The shootings have been compared to those in Dunblane in 1996 and in Cumbria in 2010, and the Hungerford massacre remains one of the deadliest firearms incidents in British history. On the morning of Wednesday 19 August 1987…
The Eskdale valley, site of Bird's suicide