Later that evening, a police press conference in Whitehaven announced that 12 people had been killed, that a further 11 people were injured, three of them critically, and that the suspect had killed himself.
Senare på kvällen samma dag bekräftades det på en presskonferens i Whitehaven att 12 personer hade skjutits ihjäl, 11 hade skadats samt att gärningsmannen hade tagit sitt eget liv.