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East House mass shooting
1960 mass shooting in Sheffield, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On New Year's Day 1960, three men were shot and killed and two wounded in a mass shooting at the East House public house in Sheffield, England. The killer was Mohamed Ismail, a Somali, who had earlier expressed a desire to end his life but thought that suicide was not an option due to his religious beliefs. He committed the shooting in the hope that he would be arrested and sentenced to death by a British court.
East House mass shooting | |
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Location | East House, Sheffield, England |
Coordinates | 53.3906°N 1.4588°W / 53.3906; -1.4588 |
Date | 1 January 1960; 64 years ago (1960-01-01) 10:45 p.m. (GMT) |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Weapons | Revolver |
Deaths | 3 |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrator | Mohamed Ismail |
Motive | Desire to be condemned by British authorities |
Ismail barricaded himself into the pub's toilet and was arrested there by two unarmed police constables, Gilbert Robertson and Denis Hastings. After being remanded in custody, he was determined to be insane and detained at Broadmoor Hospital for 22 months. Ismail was deported to Somalia after his release, and there he went on to shoot a judge before being killed in another mass shooting that killed several people. Robertson and Hastings received no formal recognition in their lifetimes for tackling the gun-wielding killer armed only with their truncheons, but in 2023, their families received bravery awards on their behalf from the South Yorkshire Police Federation.