Gunman in England Kills 1, Wounds 14

A man dressed all in black and armed with a shotgun went on a 15-minute shooting spree Sunday in a northeastern coastal town, killing one man and wounding 14 people before being arrested, officials said.

Police were questioning the man to determine the motive for his rampage in Monkseaton, about a mile from the Whitley Bay seaside resort and 250 miles northeast of London.

The gunman, who was not identified, roamed the streets shooting at anyone he saw, including one person in a car, another on a bicycle, one in a garden and one outside a church, said a spokesman for a local ambulance service.

“There must have been about 12 different locations given where this man had gone round,” said Ken Heads, superintendent of the Northumbria ambulance service.

Witnesses said the gunman was dressed all in black, with dark sunglasses and his hair in a pony tail. They said he wore an ammunition belt around his waist and prowled the streets for 15 minutes, pausing only to shoot.

After the shooting spree, he drove to a pub, where authorities seized him without any gunfire, police said.