This is about some shootings that happened in the UK and how the guy responsible for it is being branded a "Hero" Sorry theres a little bit to read but below is what happened.

The 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt was a major police operation in North East England in which armed police officers under the command of the Northumbria Police force attempted to apprehend Raoul Moat, a 37-year-old man from Newcastle upon Tyne recently released from Durham Prison. Moat, armed with a sawn-off shotgun, was believed to have shot three people, his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, her new partner Chris Brown, and a police officer, David Rathband. Brown was killed, while Stobbart and Rathband remain hospitalised, seriously injured. After six days on the run, on 9 July Moat was recognised by police and contained in the open, leading to a standoff. After nearly six hours of negotiation, Moat shot himself in the early hours of 10 July, and was later pronounced dead at Newcastle General Hospital. The operation took place across the entire Northumbria Police area, which covers both the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and the rural county of Northumberland.

The manhunt began after the shootings of Stobbart and Brown in the early hours of 3 July 2010 in Birtley, Gateshead. Nearly 22 hours later, the shooting of traffic police officer Rathband parked up in East Denton, Newcastle, was linked to Moat. It soon emerged that Moat was believed to have a grudge against the police after Stobbart had, out of fear, lied to Moat about being in a relationship with a police officer. Shortly after his release, Moat posted threats to police and others on his Facebook profile. Rathband appeared to have been targeted randomly simply for being an officer, while Moat also made further detailed threats in two subsequent letters and several phone calls to police that he would kill any officer that attempted to stop him. A former bouncer and bodybuilder, Moat was reported to be prone to bouts of anger known as "roid rage", due to steroid abuse. Both the police and some of his relatives made several appeals for him to give himself up for the sake of his children. After a sighting on the night of 5 July in an armed robbery at Seaton Delaval on the Northumberland coast, on 6 July it was announced Moat was believed to be in Rothbury in central Northumberland, where the manhunt remained focused with several further suspected sightings, until the final confrontation, beside the river on Riverside, Rothbury.

The manhunt lasted for almost seven days, and was described as the largest in modern British history, involving 160 armed officers and Armed Response Vehicles, many seconded for the operation from several other police forces. Police also used sniper teams, helicopters and dogs, armoured anti-terrorist police vehicles from Northern Ireland, and even a Royal Air Force jet for reconnaissance. In the course of the hunt there were several raids and false alarms across the region. With Moat believed to be sleeping rough, his abandoned camp-sites and property were found as he evaded capture. Two exclusion zones were set up, first around Rothbury, and then the nearby Cragside Estate, while armed guards were also posted outside schools in Rothbury after police revealed that they believed Moat posed a threat to the wider public. Several people were arrested during the hunt and after Moat's death, suspected of assisting him with equipment, information, and in evading capture and selecting targets. Two of these men that were arrested in Rothbury had initially been believed to have been hostages from the Birtley shooting.

On 5 July, Northumbria Police announced it had been informed by Durham Prison on 2 July that Moat had intended to harm his girlfriend, and as a result the force voluntarily referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Following the final confrontation, the IPCC expanded the investigation to include the immediate events leading up to Moat's death, but ruled out investigating how the manhunt itself had been conducted.

Now this man is being called a hero, a legend.

Do you think this is right? I for one do NOT think it is. Below is todays newspaper artical. How is fair on the family who lost a family member? It's disguting and makes me sick that people out there are supporting a murderer, because he shot a policeman and because his ex "deserved" to be shot.

Sick support for killer Raoul Moat | The Sun |News

Whats your opinons for this? Do you agree with his actions? Do you think this man should be known as a Hero?