Sheffield Mass Shooting

Date: January 1, 1960 • Location: Burngreave, United Kingdom

Three men were killed and two wounded in a mass shooting at a public house in Sheffield, England.

On New Year's Day 1960, three men were shot and killed and two wounded in a mass shooting at the East House public house in Sheffield, England. The killer was Mohamed Ismail, a Somali from the colony of British Somaliland. Ismail had earlier expressed a desire to end his life but thought that suicide was not an option due to his religious beliefs. He committed the shooting in the hope that he would be arrested and sentenced to death by a British court.