| 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.[1] 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.[2]