Word: hungerford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Ryan was a quiet fellow, except when it came to talking about guns. He never tired of telling his neighbors in Hungerford, a little farming town some 75 miles west of London, about his collection of firearms or showing them off whenever anyone paid attention. Ryan, 27, had recently joined the Tunnel Rifle and Pistol Club, where he practiced regularly. Said Club Manager Andrew White: "He was a very good shot. He hit an 18- by 14-in. target consistently at 100 meters." Last week Ryan used his shooting skill to deadly effect, turning his neighbors into targets...
Seven minutes later he arrived at the row house he shared with his widowed mother in Hungerford. He shot her, killed the family dog and set the house on fire. Retrieving a semiautomatic Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition from a garden shed, Ryan began walking toward the center of town, firing bursts and reloading as he went. "He was just strolling along the road, shooting at anything that moved," said Barbara Morley. Said another witness, Christopher Browsher: "He looked just like Rambo...
...struck by the missile, and it was something I will never forget. It was horrific." No doubt the young prince had quite a different reaction to the arrival of a gaggle of chorines, dropped aboard for a U.S.O.-style performance. Two of the dancers, Carole St. James and Carol Hungerford, were introduced to Andrew afterward. "He told us to call him 'H' [for Highness]," says St. James. "I was singing You Made Me Love You, and he sang the second verse." The shipboard romance adjourned at 3 a.m., when H had to go on duty. "He said...