"He used to get everything he wanted from his mother", Mr Morley, who lived near the Ryan family, said. At 2.30pm the gunman strolled into the empty John O'Gaunt Primary School on Priory Road. [25] On South View, Ryan's mother Dorothy returned in her car to see him armed; she shouted for him to stop before he shot her four times with his Beretta, twice at point-blank range. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Menu. He was an only child, reportedly sullen and bullied at school. He was working in Newbury in 1987, and remembers turning on the television to check the new video-conferencing system he had just set up when he saw footage of the unfolding tragedy. Landline number (518) 758-9336 . It's one of our townsmen who did it." [31], Ryan was seen approaching the school where he had formerly been a pupil, although his precise location after approximately 13:50 was unknown. Along sidewalks of this idyllic market town in western England, residents gathered in clutches yesterday, some consoling others, some questioning. Only gradually, after a day spent in the town, do I realise how unreasonable this judgment is. On foot, Ryan proceeded towards the common, injuring two more people: Marjorie Jackson and Lisa Mildenhall (aged 14, shot in both legs). "I was there. The shootings remain one of the deadliest firearms incidents in British history. Sulk, the penultimate track on Radiohead's album The Bends, was written as a response to the massacre. British officials immediately said they would review the country's gun-licensing laws. J G Ballard's novel Running Wild centres around the fictitious Richard Greville, a Deputy Psychiatric Advisor with the Metropolitan police who authored "an unpopular minority report on the Hungerford killings" and is sent to investigate mass murder in a gated community. [3][4][5] Ryan's mother, Dorothy, was 19 years Alfred's junior and worked as a school dinner lady before taking employment at Elcot Park Hotel as a waitress. It later transpired that Ryan had never seen the film (Buckingham, 2001: 76) but the allegations provided sensationalist headlines and imagery (see Webster, 1989). And at that point he decided a set and run spree killing was the only way of solving the problem.". Mrs GODFREY had just finished picnicking with her two children aged 4 and 2 . It was not merely the media. After the massacre, a town is in stunned disbelief. Shotguns had to be registered and were required to be kept in secure storage. His father and one of his colleagues were killed by Ryan: his mother was shot but survived. "A police constable there said, 'Don't visit the families leave that to the professionals.' Mr Leslie Ryan, who lives with his wife, Connie, in London, said on ITN News at Ten that Michael, who was devoted to his father, he seemed to go to pieces after his death two years ago. Shortly after 1pm, Police Constable Briereton arrived in South View. I picked myself up as best I could and I was back at work within a few weeks.". ", But no incident has brought the pain of Hungerford back as pointedly as Dunblane. Ryan was apparently indulged and spoiled, getting the toys and later the records and clothes he wanted from his mother who also apparently gave him a sense of superiority by the love she lavished on him. Labels. Mr Alan Lapetit, another of the occupants of the block, was wounded. Then he shot at Ken Clements and killed him as he walked with his three children. He spied on them as they ate their picnic lunch, before . A victims' fund, set up with help from those who had created a similar fund after the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire, raised 1.25m. At 12.42pm, Ryan drove a silver Vauxhall Astra into the Golden Arrow filling station at Foxfield, on the A4, east of the forest. At 7.45pm the siege ended, as Ryan shot himself. It was the 19th of August, 1987, when 35-year-old Susan Godfrey, a nurse at Dunedin Hospital in Reading, left her home in Burghfield Common to take her two young children for a picnic in Savernake Forest. [32] The sergeant said he understood Ryan when he claimed that his mother's death was "a mistake"; Ryan reportedly replied, "How can you understand? His first victim was Susan Godfrey, whom he spotted eating a pack lunch with her two children aged two and four in Savernake Woods. ", Is he puzzled that the reaction here is less emotional than in the US? "The following week he shot Alan," says Mrs Lepetit, and she almost laughs with disbelief. It marked the start of a seven-hour massacre in which Ryan - 27 at the time - killed 16 people, including his neighbours, a police officer and his own mother, and injured 15 others. He got into his car, couldn't start it, and so shot it up. I thought it was happening again. George White and Francis Butler, who had been walking his dog in the park, were killed. I Godfrey. Spoof Welsh rap group Goldie Lookin' Chain mentioned the killer in their song Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do, a satire on the supposed links between gangsta rap and gun crime as reported in the press: 'Like Michael Ryan, about to snap, guns don't kill people, it's just rap'. The people of Hungerford will never forget the meanness that was visited upon them 30 years ago . MADHATTERDESIGN@GMAIL.COM, FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION, MIKADROID: ROBOKILL BENEATH DISCO CLUB LAYLA, MOH - INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD, ARTICLE "THE ICEMAN" RICHARD LEONARD KUKLINSKI, Like old school VHS Covers? Susan wrote her will on 4 Oct 1645, describing herself as Susan Reynell of Bourton in the parish of Canning, Wiltshire, widow. Association For Womens Healthcare 1535 Lake Cook Rd Ste 502 Northbrook, IL 60062. 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. Several shots rang out as a van passed the Norland nursing home and the driver slumped dead at the wheel. Negotiators made contact with him; at one point he waved what appeared to be an unpinned grenade at them through the window. Susan Godfrey. He killed a dog-walker who had raised his hands in surrender. He is believed to have modelled himself on his older father, a clerk of works and traditionalist who valued authority and would be violent towards Ryan's mother, a lunchtime supervisor at a primary school. Destroyed homes have been rebuilt. It is chock full of artwork, rare documents, FBI files and in depth articles regarding serial murder. How could anyone who was here ever forget what happened on that terrible day?". He could not play football and he was picked on a lot.". Today Thames Valley Police officers will pay their respects to those who died and the flag on the town hall will be flown at half mast. "People kept telling me their troubles 'You think you've got troubles, what about this?'" After random shootings, assailant takes his own life. Resides in Saint Petersburg, FL. "It wasn't in the rules how do you deal with a shooting?" Yet so close-knit is the community here that almost everyone in this town knows someone who was affected by the shootings. Workers and shoppers in the Hungerford High Street cowered behind counters and makeshift barricades as the slaughter continued. Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old gun collector, killed 16 people and wounded 13 others before fatally shooting himself following the massacre Aug. 19 on the quiet streets of rural Hungerford, 60 miles west of London. Everyone from that day knew, or knew of, those who were killed and injured. This is the best deal on the site. "The first ambulance couldn't get to us because Michael Ryan was outside pointing his gun at them," she says. The day before, on 19 August 1987, Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old Hungerford man, drove to nearby Savernake Forest and shot dead Susan Godfrey, who was picnicking with her two young children, leaving . Lisa was shot in South View in front of her house at a range of five metres. The 17th, Ryan himself, is not mentioned. He shot and killed husband and wife Roland and Sheila Mason, who were in their back garden at their house in South View. The Association For Women's Health Care, Ltd. 30 N Michigan Ave, Suite 300. Only then did his parents tell him. Susan Godfrey is known for Wayne's World 2 (1993), Troop Beverly Hills (1989) and True Blood (2008). About Us. Mrs. Jackson contacted George White, a colleague of her husband, who contacted her husband Ivor Jackson, who were both later shot, leaving White dead and Jackson injured. At around 12:45 he was seen at his home in South View, Hungerford. Burial. Mr Winn Pask, aged 20, a neighbour, recalled that Ryan, at the age of 12, shot at cows kept by his father behind his council house with a .177 rifle. Susan is related to Steven William Hungerford and Larry Lee Hungerford as well as 3 additional people. Kay Wainwright's brother, Trevor, will never forget seeing his photograph plastered across the front of the Today newspaper, under the headline "Local policeman signs father's own death warrant". South View is a small road with four groups of four council houses in line on the left-hand side and a detached house and two bungalows below them. "Twenty-three years and it still gets brought up," he says heavily. The police helicopter was in for repair, though was eventually deployed. Mrs Ryan's body was found lying in the road outside the house. To find out Susan Hungerford's phone number and address , simply follow these instructions below: 1. A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media His mother even supported his stories to friends and family, apparently inviting people to the fake wedding. People say 'I knew Michael Ryan well', but when you talk to them, you realise they didn't know him at all.". . Tarry went to Hungerford's small police station and asked what he should do. Ryan fired 11 bullets from his semi-automatic into their Volvo; Linda was hit in the shoulder, Alison in the right thigh - the bullet travelling into her lower back and severing some of the nerves leaving her permanently disabled. "He was a bit of a loner. By, or before, 14:30 Ryan had ensconced himself at the John O'Gaunt Secondary School (closed and empty at that time of year for summer holidays), where he had previously been a pupil. Susan D. Goga is on Facebook. There, around midday, he shot dead his elderly mother and the family dog. Trevor Wainwright, 53, was the local policeman at the time of the massacre and continued to serve in Hungerford Police until six years ago. Although the gun did not go off and Kakoub escaped unhurt, the mental trauma left her unable to work again. Susan Choke (born Hungerford) was born in 1537, at birth place, to Sir John Hungerford and Bridget Margaret Hungerford (born Fettiplace). He is still baffled as to why he "flipped". Opening up the town hall gave everybody the chance [to talk]. Strangers told her how their husband had been murdered and there had been no public sympathy for them. [8] At this point, the TFU secured gardens and houses in the area before surrounding the school at approximately 16:00. [24], Ryan next shot at George White, who had returned from Newbury having collected Marjorie Jackson's husband Ivor from work. It was to that building he was brought as the only child of his parents when he was a few days old and it was where he grew up and developed his own fantasy existence. He'd stood pointing a gun at them with a band of bullets strung around his chest before opening fire. . Linda Lepetit thinks maybe she should have spoken to Ryan more over the garden fence, "because if he hadn't been such a loner, who knows?". [18] Leaving the house, he headed east on South View towards school playing fields. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Height. This page was last edited on 19 January 2023, at 20:53. Scrawled on the wooden upright supporting the region map is a confused testament. "He was just strolling along the road, shooting at anything that moved," said Barbara Morley. The gunman, brandishing a shotgun in one hand and a pump-action shotgun in the other, strode down South View after collecting ammunition in the garden of his home. The murder spree became known as the Hungerford Massacre and would lead to sweeping changes in gun control. Name: Susan U Hungerford, Phone number: (949) 470-0420, State: IN, City: Noblesville, Zip Code: 46062 and more information Approximately 100 yards (100m) from their destination, Ryan shot Douglas dead and injured Kathleen before non-fatally shooting at two other drivers. At 7.55pm, a police ambulance moved slowly into the school playing fields. "1987 tragedy memorial" it says, obliquely, and lists the names of the 16 dead. Shortly after the shootings, Tarry and his wife Beryl went to six funerals in one day. Before he committed suicide, the gunman who killed his mother and 13 others and injured 15 more expressed bewilderment that he had shot so many people but felt incapable of turning the gun on himself, police said today. Ryan had killed fifteen people, and wounded ten others. As he went to secondary school the bullying continued and Ryan would later withdraw from college and gain no qualifications, making it difficult for him to get a job and join in with society. He claimed to have befriended a colonel who was giving him a house, and made up a girlfriend. But this day, Ryan armed himself with a Kalashnikov semiautomatic rifle, a powerful Beretta pistol and an M1 carbine, and had decided he would kill. Although the magazine takes this subject very seriously and in no way attempts to glorify the crimes describe in it, it also provides a unique collection of rare treats (including mini biographical comics, crossword puzzles and trivia quizzes). Most people are not grief-stricken but angry that their friendly little town is a byword, around the world, for mass murder. RICHARD GODFREY OBITUARY. "I was a young mum without much money and I knew my children would love it. Email addresses. "They felt we were all in it together and we had to do something about it. Select this result to view Susan Effie Godfrey's phone number, address, and more. Little would PC Wainwright know that Ryan would later use his guns on the officer's own parents, who had decided to visit him on a whim on the fateful day of the massacre. Shootings. Michael Ryan's rampage in Hungerford began in the road where he lived, South View, where he killed his mother and at least six other people. Last week, however, at the gun shop on Hungerford High Street, Roxtons Sporting Ltd, where the word "SHOOTING" is still emblazoned defiantly on the window, it was business as usual. Michael Ryan / The Hungerford Massacre . Menu. At 12.55pm on the day of the shootings, Sylvia, who still lives in South View, doing the housework in her dressing-gown when she heard the sound of breaking glass. "He used to beat her up. Susan Godfrey, of Reading , was killed while picnicking with her children; Roland and Sheila Mason, were killed in their home; Kenneth Clements, was shot while walking to Hungerford Common; PC Roger Brereton, was shot in South View. Dr. Sue Ann Hungerford has 2 locations. Another of Ryan's victims was an elderly Asian, Mr Khan, who lived in one of the bungalows where South View becomes Fairview Road. He entered the kiosk and fired with a pistol on Mrs Margaret Dean, the cashier, who was saved by armoured glass. "Dad, I was later told, died instantly. At the 20th anniversary service, Hill's mother told Beryl: "We ought to be surrounded by grandchildren by now, but it hasn't worked out right.". shungerford@verizon.net. 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