Horden shooting
| Horden shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Horden, County Durham, England, UK |
| Date | 1 January 2012 |
Attack type | mass shooting, murder-suicide |
| Weapon | shotgun |
| Deaths | 4 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Michael Atherton |
The Horden shooting was a mass shooting in Horden, England, on 1 January 2012, also called the New Year's Day shooting. 42-year-old Michael Atherton shot his partner Susan McGoldrick, her sister Alison Turnbull and her daughter Tanya Turnbull with a shotgun, before killing himself. They were all killed in Atherton's home, where three others escaped from an upstairs window, one of whom had suffered minor injuries from the spray of the gun.