I agree he should have been held to account for killing the police officer and wounding the man he shot first. However, at least he will no longer be a risk to anyone else.
I don't really want to link to the article, but did anyone else read the article about the case in the Daily Mail? There was something very dubious about how they reported the incident, including:
^Eric Long, 80, said he looked out of his living room window to see Reeve holding a firearm.^
^?I heard a bang ? I had been asleep then heard it. I spent 30 years in the air force so I knew what it was,? he added.^
^?I saw him standing with some kind of revolver. He was chasing somebody, firing as he went.^
^'I then saw the black man running down the street. He looked like he might have fallen over and he had his phone glued to his ear.^
^?Something just got too much. He had asked for help before ? this guy lived below him and they clashed.^
^?The way I look at it there was just no way of stopping him ? it was a build-up of things. Some people get tense and then just eventually explode.^
^?He was very pleasant to speak to but he had certain views on how the world should be ? he has certain standards.?^
and then
^^One resident said he was a ?nice chap? and a ?very smart man? who was known for helping other elderly neighbours. He said: ?I?ve known him for a long time. He probably has the nicest decorated flat in the whole place.?
^^
The quotes are in the updated article, but they were in the report this morning when the gunman was still at large, the police officer was dead and another man wounded. It just seemed to me to be really inappropriate to include comments like that at this stage.