David Cameron in Cumbria visit after killings
Friday 4th June 2010, 9:43AM BST.
Prime minister David Cameron is to visit Cumbria later as police continue to investigate the 12 killings carried out by gunman Derrick Bird.
David Cameron, who will be accompanied by Home Secretary Theresa May, is to meet senior officers from the local constabulary.
Bird, 52, also wounded 11 people before shooting himself in the west of the county on Wednesday.
The massacre began with the first reports of gunshots in Whitehaven at 10.30am near a taxi rank.
Bird produced two guns – believed to be a .22 rifle with telescopic sight and a shotgun – and shot fellow taxi drivers in Duke Street, killing Darren Rewcastle, before going on a killing spree.
Mr Cameron said on Thursday there should not be a “knee-jerk reaction” to changing gun ownership laws in the aftermath of the deaths.
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