Following the murder of a father and son, a man and a woman who had been detained have been freed.
According to report, the two men’s separate shootings on Wednesday night, a 27-year-old man and 33-year-old woman have been detained in the wee hours of yesterday morning.
The two have now been released without additional incident, however a 66-year-old guy who was detained after being pulled over on a Worcester area highway is still in police custody.
Officers discovered a handgun while checking his car; they are now looking into whether it was legally held.
The victims have been named locally as Josh Dunmore, 32, and his dad Gary, 57.
Police were called to reports of gunshots at a property in Meridian Close, Bluntisham – a village in Cambridgeshire – just after 9pm on Wednesday where they found Josh with a gunshot wound.
Around half an hour later gunshots were also heard in the village of Sutton, near Ely, and Gary’s body was found with gunshot wounds at a home in The Row.
Detective chief superintendent Jon Hutchinson said: ‘Working with local residents and family members we quite quickly established that the two victims were related and they were father and son.’
He said that the ‘primary line of investigation’ was that the incident related to a ‘familial issue’.
‘It’s been widely reported in the media that this may relate to a custody battle,’ he said. ‘I can confirm that is an active line of inquiry for us.’
Tributes have been paid to both men, with one saying Josh ‘shone such a bright light over everyone around you’ and Gary described as ‘friendly, happy, smiley – just the perfect neighbour’.
One of Gary’s neighbours, who only gave his name as Stuart, said: ‘He couldn’t do any more for any person. There was not a malicious bone in his body.
‘What tribute could you pay to somebody who could never meet you without the biggest smile?
‘There is no way that he would have deserved this at all.’
Detective inspector Mark Butler, from the major crime unit, said: ‘These events will be shocking to local people and there will be understandable concerns within local communities, however, we are treating the attacks as targeted and there is no wider risk to the general public.’