2010 Northumbria Police manhunt

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A manhunt was conducted across Tyne and Wear and Northumberland from 3 to 10 July 2010 with the objective of apprehending fugitive Raoul Moat. After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shooting spree, the 37-year-old ex-prisoner went on the run for nearly a week. The manhunt concluded when Moat died by suicide having shot himself near the town of Rothbury, Northumberland, following a six-hour standoff with armed police officers under the command of the Northumbria Police. Moat's victims were ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, her new partner Chris Brown, and police officer David Rathband. Stobbart was hospitalised and Brown was killed, while Rathband remained in hospital for nearly three weeks and was permanently blinded, before taking his own life on 29 February 2012. Moat shot the three with a sawn-off shotgun, two days after his release from Durham Prison. After six days on the run, Moat was recognised by police and contained in the open, leading to a standoff. After...

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