The leader of the Scottish National Party at Westminster says his constituency has been “shocked to the core” after a gunman went on a rampage on Wednesday, shooting one man dead and leaving three others seriously injured.
Ian Blackford, SNP member of parliament for Ross, Skye, and Lochaber, said, “It’s a terrible, terrible day that these things have come to Skye and Lochalsh.”
Just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday a 32-year-old woman was shot in the village of Tarskavaig.
Half an hour later a 47-year-old man was shot dead at a house in another tiny community, Teangue, eight miles from Tarskavaig. He has been named locally as John MacKinnon, a father of four….