Teenager goes on rampage
NZPA-PA London A teenager killed himself after going on a terrifying shotgun rampage. Only a few weeks after the first anniversary of Michael Ryan’s massacre of bystanders in the Berkshire town of Hungerford, Anthony Haskett, aged 18, took to the streets of Walsall in the West Midlands bristling with firepower. Armed with the 12-bore sawn-off shotgun and wearing a bandolier of 76 cartridges, he shot three
youths and threatened a car’s occupants. Then, as he was confronted by a police personnel carrier, he put the gun to his chin and pulled the trigger. Afterwards, police who went to Haskett’s home in Walsall found a “veritable arsenal of weapons,” including crossbows and airguns, as well as balaclava helmets, camouflage cream and the shotgun’s barrel. < The motive for his rampage was not known.
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