By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:33 p.m. ET
SEASCALE, England (AP) -- British police say a taxi driver went on a shooting spree across rural northwestern England, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself.
The rampage in the county of Cumbria is Britain's deadliest mass shooting since 1996 and shocked a country where gun ownership is tightly restricted.
Police Deputy Chief Constable Stuart Hyde says the rampage ''has shocked the people of Cumbria and around the country to the core''.
Officers found the body of 52-year-old suspect Derrick Bird in woods near the Lake District village of Boot. A gun was found alongside the body.
The shootings took place Wednesday in the town of Whitehaven and nearby Seascale and Egremont, about 350 miles (560 kilometers) northwest of London.
