Jury hears about the 'confusion and hysteria' in Biddick Drive the night of the shootings
Neighbours have been recounting the events of that night
Last updated 18th Jan 2023
The accounts of neighbours in Biddick Drive have been read to the jury at the ongoing inquests into the five people shot dead in Plymouth in August 2021.
One neighbour, Sharon Hellier, recounted hearing what she originally thought was fireworks but then saw Jake Davison walking with a shotgun in a 'really calm' way.
She described seeing a dad - with a gunshot wound to the head - cradling his three-year-old daughter, who was also dead.
She said other neighbours were 'hysterical' and in shock and she raced back home to check on her own children who were indoors screaming.
She described Jake's mum Maxine as hippy like and mellow' and 'couldn't fault her' as a neighbour of two years.
She said there was very little interaction between mum and son - and if they went shopping together it would not be ‘obvious’ they were together.
She recalled that Maxine had called Jake her 'weird son' on previous occasions and admitted he was 'fascinated with guns'' and would 'YouTube how to make certain types of bomb' - but she thought there was 'nothing in it and just a chat between friends'.
Another neighbour also recounted finding a man and little girl shot dead.
She had lived there for 20 years and said: "Jake is not the type of man you would want to see with a gun."
She said Jake had always seem like he had 'aspergers' and in all the years she had lived there 'he never spoke' and appeared 'insular and lonely'.