Off Topic Does anyone remember the local 1989 Monkseaton mass shooting?

Someone told me there was a mass shooting in the local area. It happened before I was born. I researched into it, and I couldn't for the life of me find anything about it on youtube. Not one single true crime youtube channel covered it, and it was briefly mentioned in one random podcast.

The rest is just scattered local news sources.

It's insane that in a country where mass shootings by one person are so rare that this doesn't have more coverage.

I've been wanting to create horror/true crime for a while, so I've used this as an opportunity to kick start a youtube channel and see where it goes.

Digging into this case has been quite insane. I lived in Monkseaton when I was a kid. Didn't realise one of the worst mass shootings in UK's recent history happened right on my doorstep.

Enjoy

 

Mr Wilson, one of his victims sounds like a typical Geordie:

Mr Wilson was hit with more than 60 shotgun pellets and for years afterwards he would set off airport metal detectors because of all the shrapnel in his body. He used to carry newspaper cuttings about the Monkseaton shootings to explain why.

Twenty years on, Mr Wilson can look back with a grim sense of humour. He said: "It was a very strange day. The nurses at the hospital had never seen shotgun wounds before and they all came to look. And my dog got to ride in an ambulance - that had never happened before."

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkseaton_shootings

 

This is the one that happened around our area. I was working in Whitehaven at the time and was in the offices when you could hear the shots.

At the time I hadn’t realised what was happening so we thought someone’s car had back fired.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings

 

Not exactly a mass killing, but this is the one I remember. I was only 7, but remember it happening clearly as we were living in Fatfield.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7068386.cut-sentence-man-killed-mother/

 

Was that around the same time as someone shot a turtle in the pool in Whitley Bay???

 

"Mass shooting"

1 dead, 14-16 injured.

 

I wasn't questioning it, I was merely saying that the one I remember as a kid wasn't on the scale of your OP. I got the words killing and shooting mixed up as I'm trying to do too much at once as usual

 

That was mad.

 

Over a family dispute. He killed the solicitor his brother and then went on a rampage.

 

That would explain why nobody else remembers the turtle, or I've lost my marbles

 

Option 2 please Bob