A young couple who were found dead in a secluded area of woodland were buried together, an inquest has heard. Charlie Eccleston, 19, and Zaiga Gravenieks, 20, were found by a police dog in Shenley, England, on the morning of November 5, 2017.
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An inquest has ruled that gunman Jake Davison shot himself following a killing spree that claimed the lives of five people.
Davison was approached by an unarmed police officer on the streets of Keyham, Plymouth. At the time, Pc Zach Printer told the 22-year-old to "stand still" in the hopes that he could talk him down.
However, Davison pulled the trigger of his pump-action shotgun on himself and fell to the ground. The inquest heard how it was the culmination of an eight-minute-long attack on August 12, 2021, that started with the killing of Davison's mother.
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The apprentice crane operator would go on to shoot and kill four more people. Maxine Davison, 51, was killed in her home in Biddick Drive, while three-year-old Sophie Martyn and her father, Lee, 43, were killed on their way home.
Meanwhile Stephen Washington, 59, was shot while walking his dogs and Kate Shepherd, 66, was fatally wounded while returning from the supermarket. Pc Printer, a former Royal Marine regimental sergeant major and ex-police armed response officer, went to Henderson Place where he discovered Mrs Shepherd slumped in the doorway of a hair salon.
In a written statement read to the inquest in Exeter, Pc Printer said: “As we’ve been attending to Kate, there was a sudden shout, shouts and screams. ‘He’s back, he’s back, he’s got a gun, he’s got a gun.’
“I turned to my left, and I saw a figure walk from Bedford Street onto Henderson Place. He was a large-built individual wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He was carrying a shotgun – I knew it was a shotgun from my firearms experience.
“I got up and started to run towards him and I shouted:
A young couple who were found dead in a secluded area of woodland were buried together, an inquest has heard. Charlie Eccleston, 19, and Zaiga Gravenieks, 20, were found by a police dog in Shenley, England, on the morning of November 5, 2017.
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