The Plymouth gunman, Jake Davidson, goes on a rampage, killing 5 people, including 2 women and a female child, after having been exposed to the radical misogyny of incels. There is a precedent for incel terrorism against women 

Jake Davidson, the 'incel' man behind the mass shooting in Plymouth

Five victims, plus the attacker, in the first large-scale shooting in the UK in 11 years

By Edward Era Barbacena

Five people, including a young girl, have been killed and two others wounded in a chain of shootings that occurred late Thursday afternoon in the English city of Plymouth. The attack has been attributed to Jake Davidson, a 22-year-old who took his own life before security forces had time to intervene. The incident, in a residential area described as "quiet" by neighbors, has generated a deep commotion in the United Kingdom, where it is being investigated as the first case of violence related to the 'incel' movement, the current originating in the United States. to which similar episodes are attributed, especially in the North American country.

At a press conference to report on the first large-scale shooting in the country in eleven years, the Police clarified that it was not considered terrorist in nature. In any case, it will not determine motivation until it has examined the suspect's computers, videos of the channel that he had on YouTube have already transcended in which he expressed the misogynistic views and the strong hostility towards women with which the 'incel' subculture is identified (short for “involuntary celibate”).

In the last one he posted on the network, Davidson, who was trained as a crane operator, said he had been "defeated by life" and regretted not having a partner, a common complaint in most of his publications, which have already been withdrawals from the web. The investigation is keeping all lines open and, while it remains in contact with Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit, it is not considering links to the extreme right, despite the proliferation of opinions of that nature detected in Davidson's fingerprint, it is not only in videos, but in comments that also evidenced his sympathy for former United States President Donald Trump, or British politician Nigel Farage, former leader of UKIP and the Brexit Party, two nationalist and Europhobic formations.

The chief commissioner of the county police, Shaun Sawyer, specified, in fact, that it was an incident of “domestic” origin that would escape to the street and that one of the people he shot was known to the suspect, if Rather, he refused to specify whether they were related. He did acknowledge that the perpetrator knew people in the area, but he did not want to specify whether he had specifically gone after the other people he shot.

Eyewitnesses had already told how Davidson opened fire for the first time in a house. From there, he went to an adjacent street, where he shot to death a small girl who is believed to be her father, after which he started a stampede that would lead him to injure a couple, currently in the hospital, although his life would not be in danger, and finally, to end the departure of a man and a woman.

With weapons license

The event occurred, according to the Police, "in a matter of minutes", and four of the victims died at the crime scene itself, while a last one would do so shortly afterwards at the hospital. The police themselves have told how it took them hours to determine if Davidson had acted alone and, above all, to ensure that it was not an ongoing terrorist attack.

Investigators have confirmed that the suspect had a weapons license, but have refused to clarify whether he applied for the one he used for the slaughter, described as a "shotgun." What is clear is that he had acted alone, so the abundant material he had left on the internet is now one of the keys to the investigations, which have already detected his interest in online activity related to firearms.