Six-minute massacre: How Plymouth gunman stormed home and murdered mother, 51, before shooting dead four more including girl, three, on rampage with 'pump action shotgun' before turning weapon on himself

Shocking details began to emerge today about how a gunman killed five people including his mother and a three-year-old girl in a six-minute shooting spree in Plymouth before turning the weapon on himself.

Jake Davison, 22, shot and killed his mother Maxine, 51, at a property in the Keyham area of the Devon city last night, before going outside and shooting dead the child and her male relative with a pump-action shotgun.

He then shot and killed another man in nearby parkland. After shooting and fatally injuring another woman, Davison shot himself. Officers arrived at the scene six minutes after receiving multiple calls from the public.

Davison also shot two other local residents who are being treated in hospital for non-life threatening injuries. These two people 'received significant injuries', but were the only victims to not die from their wounds.

As police said there were at least 13 crime scenes, MailOnline explains how yesterday's tragedy unfolded:

1) MURDERS MOTHER, 51, IN HOUSE

Apprentice crane operator Jake Davison, 22, who calls himself as a 'f***ing fat ugly virgin', kicks down the door of a house in Biddick Drive, where he is believed to live, in the Keyham area of Plymouth in Devon at 6pm yesterday.

Dressed in black, Davison opens fire with a long-barreled gun on those inside, believed to be members of his family, killing his mother Maxine, 51, whom he previously said he 'hated' and blamed for him being a virgin.

One witness, calling herself Sharron, described seeing the shooting as 'horrendous and so sad'. She said: 'Firstly, there was shouting, followed by gunshots - three possibly four to begin with.

'This was when the shooter kicked in the door of a house and randomly started shooting. He ran from the house shooting as he ran and proceeded to shoot at a few people in the linear park up from the drive.'

2) MURDERS A GIRL, 3, AND HER MALE RELATIVE, 43

Without saying a word, Davison then leaves the semi-detached house and enters Biddick Drive where he fatally shoots a three-year-old girl and kills a 43-year-old male relative of the child who was walking her up the road.

Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer said the force believes the incident is 'domestically related, that has spilled into the street and seen several people in Plymouth losing their lives in extraordinarily tragic circumstances'.

Police work near the scene on Biddick Drive following the shooting in the Keyham area of Plymouth yesterday evening

A police car at the scene on Biddick Drive today following the shooting in Keyham, Plymouth, yesterday evening

3) INJURES A MAN, 53, AND A WOMAN, 33

Further along Biddick Drive, Davison shoots at two local residents - a man and a woman - who suffer significant but not life-threatening injuries. They are now in hospital and are the only victims to receive non-fatal injuries.

They are aged 53 and 33, and are known to each other. Mr Sawyer said most witnesses were 'shocked at what was unfolding before them', and there was no evidence that Davison was saying anything as he carried out his atrocity.

4) MURDERS A MAN, 59, IN A PARK

Davison then enters an adjacent area of parkland where he immediately shoots a man, aged 59, who dies at the scene. Police say they do not yet know of any formal relationship between Davison and the man.

Police and forensic officers in the area around Biddick Drive in Plymouth today following the shootings yesterday

Police teams work near the scene on Biddick Drive following the shooting in Keyham yesterday evening

5) MURDERS A WOMAN, 66, OUTSIDE A HAIR SALON

He then fatally wounds a 66-year-old woman outside the Blush hair salon, which is located nearby on Henderson Place. The owners of the hairdressers told MailOnline that they only closed about an hour before the shooting.

Nikki Whitton, co-owner of Blush, said: 'The police told us that the cordon around our salon will remain in place over the weekend and maybe even into early next week. It's very tragic what's happened.'

Janet, a local resident, told MailOnline: 'I heard all the sirens going and went to see what was going on. When I got to the hairdressers, I saw a woman on the floor, and she was receiving CPR. It was a horrific sight.'

6) SHOOTS HIMSELF

Eye-witnesses tell police that Davison then turns the gun upon himself, taking his own life before officers arrive.

The owners of the salon were told by police that it would have to remain closed until early next week because it is where Davison shot one of his victims and then himself.

Leah Bull, co-owner of Blush, said: 'I was informed that a woman was shot outside the salon while a man was found dead by some garages which are behind it. This has left me really shaken because we only closed our salon on Thursday about an hour before the shootings took place.'

A police car blocks off Henderson Place last night following the shooting which left six people dead including the gunman

Devon and Cornwall Police said it received 'multiple' calls about the incident in the Keyham area of Plymouth at 6.11pm

What we know so far about the mass shooting in Plymouth

- Trainee crane operator Jake Davison, 23, carried out the attack yesterday evening;

- Davison had a firearms licence, and police do not believe he was linked to any terrorist or far-right organisation.

- The crime scene currently stretches to 13 separate sites.

- Police are examining the hard drive and social media activity of Davison, who posted on a YouTube channel under the name Professor Waffle and previously said he did not have "any willpower to do anything anymore" in a recording dated July 28.

- Five people and the suspected gunman have died after a shooting in Plymouth;

- Devon and Cornwall Police said they received reports of a 'serious firearms incident' in Biddick Drive, Keyham, at around 6.10pm.

- The South Western Ambulance Service said hazardous area response teams , multiple ambulances, air ambulances, doctors and senior paramedics were sent to the scene.

- Two women and two men were found dead at different crime scenes;

- A third woman, who was treated for gunshot wounds, later died in hospital.

- One of those killed was a girl, aged three

- Local MP Luke Pollard said a number of people are receiving treatment in hospital although the number has not been confirmed by police.

- Detectives stressed the incident was not terror-related and that they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

- The area remained cordoned off on Friday, with officers in white forensic suits working at the scene and a coroner's ambulance was filmed leaving;

The maniac shooter who murdered five people in Plymouth before turning his gun on himself was a nihilistic YouTuber who fantasised about being The Terminator, ranted about being a 'f***ing fat ugly virgin' and described his affinity with the 'incel' movement linked to mass murder by misogynists in the US and Canada, MailOnline can reveal today.

Jake Davison, 22, a bodybuilder who appears obsessed with not being attractive to women and being without a girlfriend, has been named by people in the Devon naval city as the gunman with a three-year-old girl and at least one relative feared to be among his victims.

At 6pm last night the apprentice crane operator was seen kicking down the door of a house in Biddick Drive, where he lives, and opening fire with a long-barreled gun on the people inside, believed to be members of his family, killing one person.

His mother, who recently beat cancer, a sister and brother all live in the city.

Without saying a word Davison, dressed in black, then gunned down a little girl, three, and a male relative walking her up Biddick Drive in the south-west naval city before then shooting and injuring a man and a woman nearby. They are recovering in hospital.

The gunman then shot and murdered a man walking in a nearby park, fatally wounded a woman outside a hair salon before shooting himself 'during that six-minute-or-so period' before armed police arrived.

His rampage left the young girl, two women, and two men dead. More were injured.

The mass shooting – the first in Britain involving an 'active gunman' for 11 years since taxi driver Derrick Bird killed 12 people in Cumbria - will spark an inquiry into how Davison was able to get the weapon in a country with strict gun controls.

Home Secretary Priti Patel was briefed throughout the evening as was Boris Johnson, who today tweeted; My thoughts are with the friends and family of those who lost their lives and with all those affected by the tragic incident in Plymouth last night. I thank the emergency services for their response'.

Local MP Luke Pollard called the incident 'utterly devastating' and 'probably the darkest day in Plymouth's history since the end of the Second World War', when Nazi Luftwaffe carpet bombed the city and its world-famous docks.

There will also be questions for the police about whether he was known to them before the attack. Devon and Cornwall Police are yet to comment on any contact they may have had with him or how he got the gun.

Today MailOnline can reveal he was an active YouTuber calling himself 'Professor Waffle', who posted videos of himself working out and most recently ten-minute rants about life being 'rigged against you', humanity being on the 'brink of extinction' and being repulsive to the opposite sex.

He also shared clips from ultra-violent video games and just two days ago 'liked' videos of a M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle being shot.

In his most recent online rant from his bedroom he said: 'You wake up and you stare at the wall and you're thinking um nothing's changed but I'm still in the same position, same period in life, still a f***ing this, that virgin f***ing fat ugly, what'. He added: 'I like to think sometimes, you know, I'm a Terminator or something. And despite, despite, um, you know reaching almost total system failure he keeps trying to accomplish his mission'.

A fortnight ago, the 23-year-old also spoke of his affinity with the 'incel' movement, which has been linked to a number of mass shootings in the US. The most notorious was by misogynist killer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in California in May 2014 before he turned the gun on himself. In Canada in 2018 Alek Minassian posted a Facebook message showing his support for Incels before ploughing a van into crowds, killing ten.

'Incel' stands for 'involuntary celibate' and those referring to themselves as such believe their unattractiveness to women is predetermined by his genetics. Some extremist followers believe they are owed sex by women. Davison says repeatedly in his videos that he is repulsive to women, overweight and so is all his family.

He also talks about being a 'black pill-er' - a group who believe they are unworthy of love and attempts to form lasting relationships with women are 'destined to end in failure'. Davison also 'liked' a series of videos about guns, and shared posts on Facebook quoting former American president Donald Trump as well pictures of a statue holding a rifle with the US flag in the background.

His Facebook profile suggests he started working at defence and engineering company Babcock International earlier this year. The company declined to comment.

Jake Davison shot multiple people and then himself last night in the worst shooting atrocity in Britain for 11 years

Incels and 'black pill' links to Plymouth gunman: Misogynist movement who believe they are 'owed sex' and have been behind several mass shootings in the US including 2020 machete attack classed as terrorism

An incel, which is an abbreviation of an involuntary celibate, refers to a group of men who advocated for violence against women because they believe they are unjustly denied sexual or romantic attention.

Essentially, they blame women for refusing to have sex with them and believe in responding with rape and violence.

Those who identify as an incel interact with each other on online forums where they discuss their hatred of women, hatred of feminism, how to get away with rape, and specific women to target.

In 2014, self-proclaimed Incel Elliot Rodger declared a 'War on Women' and went on a killing spree near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Since then, Incels have been linked to a number of violent attacks, and are increasingly described as a terrorism threat.

In February 2020, a machete attack in a Toronto massage parlor became the first incident of alleged Incel violence to be prosecuted as an act of terrorism.

Jake Davison talked about being a 'black pill-er' - a group who believe they are unworthy of love and attempts to form lasting relationships with women are 'destined to end in failure'.

Dr Joseph Downing, a fellow in nationalism at LSE who studies security and terrorism, told MailOnline: 'The incel attacks and jihadi attacks share many commonality. In all cases it's the chicken and egg problem.

'Is it somebody who acts like this because of their predisposition to violence who found the incel movement, or is it the incel movement that gave that individual the idea to go and commit violence?

'Many think it's about extremist propaganda and the ability to access it and be radicalised, but I'm on the side of that it doesn't really matter.

'These people go and seek extremist ideologies because they're predisposed to do that kind of thing. So whether it's Andre Breivik or jihadis or the incel movement it doesn't matter.

'The incel movement is pretty nuts. When you go down the rabbit hole they say stuff like women are forcing me to be celibate and should cater it upon themselves as their feminine duties to give sexual favours to men.

'But it doesn't really say much about acts of violence. It's not really an ideology that goes as far as say radical Islam.

'They're more of an abstract nihilistic, misogynistic kind of group. So there is a commonality with other forms of extremist violence.

'It's more the person is predisposed to to that kind of behaviour and they go and seek out some kind of extremist ideology.

'The individual is just not interested in the other information out there, they want to find the radical ideology.'

He added: 'I don't think people like him will encourage similar acts of violence - in this case we lose the fact that what he's done is really mysterious.

'The majority of people you could just never sway to do that kind of thing. But there may well be other individuals who will go out and commit acts of violence and say it's inspired by him, for example.

'Some may say yes I was inspired by him and incel and stuff like that, but I don't think people are swayed, some just have that psychopathic tendency to extreme violence or they don't.'

He said on July 28: 'People like similar to me, they've had nothing but themselves. And then they've socially had it tough, probably grew up in a s*** background, like, like… How can you have drive and willpower, you know, when you've been defeated a million times? It's you wake up and you're like 'what the f***?', you know, when you've when you've worked so f***ing hard – so f***ing hard – and you see mother***ers who work nowhere near as hard as you.

'For the most part it's just been me against the world. It's just been me fighting an uphill battle with a big f***ing rock on my back, you know, while I'm seeing mother***ers that don't deserve half of anything, now they're getting a free road to the top'.

He added: 'I think any as long as you're breathing air… It's like in the Terminator, right, you know, fate is nothing, you know, the whole premise of the Terminator movies is that you know everything's rigged against you, there's no hope for humanity, you know, we're on the brink of extinction, you know, these machines are unstoppable killing machines that can't be beaten, can't be outsmarted. But yet humanity still tries to fight to the end! And I know it's a movie but, you know, I like to think sometimes, you know, I'm a Terminator or something. And despite, despite, um, you know reaching almost total system failure he keeps trying to accomplish his mission, you know'.

Witnesses described seeing the gunman dressed in black and grey and kicking down the door of a semi-detached house and opening fire in the Keyham area of the city just after 6pm yesterday.

He was carrying a long-barreled gun and was seen fleeing to the rear of the property and into a park where he allegedly ran into the two dog walkers and opened fire.

One witness, calling herself Sharron, described seeing the shooting as 'horrendous and so sad'.

'Firstly, there was shouting, followed by gunshots - three possibly four to begin with,' she said.

She said the 'shooter proceeded along Royal Navy Avenue still shooting'.

The owners of a hairdressers were told by police that it would have to remain closed until early next week because it is where Jake Davison shot one of his victims and then himself.

Leah Bull and Nikki Whitton are co-owners of Blush Salon, which is located on Henderson Place in Keyham, where Davison carried out his rampage.

After shooting dead people who are believed to be members of his family on Biddick Drive, he walked through a path, exiting onto Henderson Place to continue his killing spree.

After arriving at the police cordon which has been put up in the area, Ms Bull was told by police that a woman was shot dead outside her business while Davison killed himself behind it.

Ms Bull told MailOnline: 'We can't get into our salon and probably won't until at least early next week. I wanted to go in so that we can contact our clients who have appointments telling them not to come but that's not going to be possible. We've got people coming from as far as Cornwall.

'I was informed that a woman was shot outside the salon while a man was found dead by some garages which are behind it. This has left me really shaken because we only closed our salon on Thursday about an hour before the shootings took place.'

Ms Whitton said: 'The police told us that the cordon around our salon will remain in place over the weekend and maybe even into early next week.

'It's very tragic what's happened but this has left us with a lot of problems because we had a lot of appointments booked. I don't know what we're going to do.'

Local residents reported seeing a woman receiving CPR outside Blush Salon.

Robert Pinkerton, 54 told Plymouth Live that he was on Henderson Place when he heard a loud bank. He turned a corner and bumped into a man and 'swerved' when he saw the gun.

He saw an injured woman in the doorway of the hairdressers and witnessed a man tried to give her medical attention.

Janet, another local resident told MailOnline: 'I heard all the sirens going and went to see what was going on. When I got to the hairdressers, I saw a woman on the floor, and she was receiving CPR.

'It was a horrific sight and not something I'd want to see again. We've been told that the Davison went to the garages at the back of the hairdressers and shot himself.'

The area of the naval port city where the killings took place was put in lockdown as emergency response teams raced to the scene.

Local MPs urged residents to 'remain calm' and stay indoors as they awaited more information, adding that it was a 'grim day for our city and our community'.

The incident was so serious that Home Secretary Priti Patel was given regular updates. Security sources said it was not being treated as a terror incident.

Sharron Turner, 57, who lives behind the scene of the shooting, said that a gunman had 'kicked in' the front door of a semi-detached house before shooting a young mother and her daughter.

'We heard a number of loud bangs which I said sounded like gunshots,' Miss Turner told The Times. 'Then he ran into the park and there were further shots. I heard someone say he had shot his brother.'

After the attack the gunman escaped through a park behind the house in Northdown Crescent and shot two dog walkers, she claimed.

A second witness wrote: 'I've just had to emergency drive out of my house. There's on the rampage in my cul de sac with a real gun and he's already shot two people. They are laying on the ground. One is dead, blood everywhere. I'm shaking like a leaf.'

Robert Pinkerton, 54, told the BBC he had 'bumped into a bloke with a shotgun' after he heard a 'loud bang'.

Mr Pinkerton then saw an injured woman in the doorway of a hairdressers and witnessed a man trying to give her medical attention.

While local resident Michelle Abdullah wrote said: 'Sad day, a man shot his whole family then went on a random shoot out. Police right outside my house. Three air ambulances at the park out my back garden.'

Last night a video posted on social media showed a body covered in a sheet lying on a pavement as an armed policeman stood close by.

One witness told MailOnline: 'I was at my mate's house after going to the gym. We were in his kitchen making some sandwiches and suddenly we heard shouting followed by screaming.

'We really thought nothing of it as the area can be noisy sometimes. We soon after heard what we thought was a firework going off so then walked towards the front off the house.

'We then saw the body of the gunman and called 999.'

And resident, John, said: 'I heard the air ambulance helicopters, and two of them landed in the playing field behind us.

'Then we could hear police cars screeching and we saw armed response officers running up the hill, carrying guns. And loads of ambulances arrived. I went out to check that people were all right and to ask if there was anything we could do, and the Police Community Support Officers told everyone to get back indoors.

'Then we saw the ambulances take people away. It all seemed to be happening at the man's family home, I think. People are saying that the man has killed himself. He's only a young guy, late teens or early 20s.'

His Facebook profile and logo'd T-shirts suggests he started working at defence and engineering company Babcock International earlier this year. The company declined to comment.