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| Two arrested over triple killing | Two arrested over triple killing |
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| Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after fatal shootings in Hertfordshire which saw three men killed and two women injured. | |
| Keith Cowell, 52, and his son Matthew, 17, died alongside 33-year-old Tony Dulieu, of Billericay, in the shooting in Bishop's Stortford on Tuesday night. | Keith Cowell, 52, and his son Matthew, 17, died alongside 33-year-old Tony Dulieu, of Billericay, in the shooting in Bishop's Stortford on Tuesday night. |
| Police said two men had been arrested on Thursday night in Stevenage, Herts, and would be questioned on Friday. | Police said two men had been arrested on Thursday night in Stevenage, Herts, and would be questioned on Friday. |
| A girl aged three was found unharmed in the house in Plaw Hatch Close. | A girl aged three was found unharmed in the house in Plaw Hatch Close. |
| The killers ran out of bullets during the attack and used a knife to stab the injured women, the BBC has learned. | |
| Killers ran out of bullets | |
| Mr Cowell's wife Nicole, 46, had left for work at Stansted Airport minutes before the gunmen arrived. | |
| A woman, aged 54, believed to be Mr Cowell's sister, and a woman aged 23, believed to be Matthew's girlfriend Claire, were seriously injured. Their condition remains serious but stable. | |
| The three-year-old girl, who is called Angel and thought to be Claire's daughter, is now being cared for by child protection officers. | |
| Mrs Cowell's brother Roger Spellane, 55, a kitchen fitter from Wood Green, London, said his sister had to formally identify her husband and son at the hospital morgue where their bodies were taken. | |
| He said the older woman who was shot and injured in the incident had been Mr Cowell's sister. He said the younger woman was Matthew's girlfriend Claire. | |
| Post-mortem examinations carried out on Mr Cowell and his son Matthew confirmed they died from gun shots. | |
| Tests on the body of Mr Dulieu will be carried out on Friday. |