In just fifteen minutes Robert Sartin ended one life and changed countless others forever.
Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the crazed gunman's deadly shooting spree in Monkseaton.
Picking his victims at random the civil servant, who it later emerged was suffering from acute schizophrenia, shot at cars, homes and people standing on the street during a terrifying spree lasting just 15 minutes.
Today we look back at how the terror unfolded, victim by victim.
It started at 11.40am on April 30, 1989. Sartin, wearing dark sunglasses and carrying a combat knife and his father’s gun, gets into his parents’ car.
Ten minutes later, Judith Rhodes, 43, was shot through the windscreen of her car, on Pykerley Road. Injured in the hand she dived for cover.
Lorraine Noble, 39, was then shot as she fled from Sartin on Windsor Road.
She had been chatting to Frank Roberts when they spotted the gun.
Lorraine ran to her house but was shot and badly injured. Frank threw himself to the ground.
Then Joan Kernaghan, her husband James, and a neighbour William Dack were all shot at as they stood chatting in the street.
Kenneth Mackintosh was then shot and killed on Windsor Road.
Once up close the gunman shot his victim twice in the back, killing him. Robert Wilson, 38, was looking for his girlfriend.
Sartin shot him in the face and back. Robert’s body was peppered with 60 pellets, 50 of which could not be removed.
The next victim was Kathleen Lynch, who was looking out through her window. Sartin fired, injuring her shoulder.
On Eastfield Avenue Sartin shot at Brian Thomas, 39, blasting him from his bike .
Pensioner Vera Burrows, 75, came face-to-face with the killer at her door, on Eastfield Avenue, and asked him what he was doing.
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He replied: "It’s me. I am killing people. I am going to kill you." But when he pointed the gun at her he continued: “Oh, you are old, I won’t kill you,” and walked away.
William Reynolds was shot in the back and neck.
Husband and wife Peter and Jean Burgon were the next victims, when Sartin blasted them in their car. Their daughter Nicola escaped unharmed.
Kathleen Myley, 64, was then shot after she left church.
Ernest Carter was shot in the back of the legs. Then Roy Brown was injured when Sartin fired through the windscreen of his car.
Jean Miller, 69, was in her garden on Brantwood Avenue, when Sartin shot her in the stomach.
PC Danny Herdman then arrested Sartin in a Whitley Bay car park.
In 1990 Sartin was charged with one count of murder and 16 counts of attempted murder but because of his mental state, the case did not get to court until 1996.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges by virtue of insanity at Durham Crown Court. But he was deemed to be suffering from a schizophrenic illness so severe that he has never been fit enough to face trial.
He was locked up in Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool.
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