US serviceman and British wife among three suspects arrested for double shooting

A US serviceman and his British wife are among three people arrested over the double shooting of a father and son in Cambridgeshire as part of a custody dispute, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.

The 27-year-old, originally from Ohio, is believed to be part of the United States Air Force stationed in the United Kingdom.

He is being held with his wife, 33, and his father, 66, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

They are being questioned about the shootings of Joshua Dunmore and his father Gary Dunmore, who was photographed by MailOnline for the first time today, Wednesday night.

Joshua, 32, was found dead in a house on a luxury new-build estate in Bluntisham on Wednesday night after police received reports of shots fired. Half an hour later, his father, Gary, 57, was also found dead in his Sutton apartment, about six miles away.

Cambridgeshire Police said yesterday they feared the couple would be shot dead due to a custody battle.

His son Josh Dunmore, 32, had just won a bitter custody battle for his son and should have been ‘celebrating’, a devastated friend claimed.

The body of Josh Dunmore, 32, was found inside the property with a gunshot wound.

Police at the scene where Gary Dunmore was found dead. At 9:37 p.m., a person called police in Sutton, near Ely, also reporting hearing gunshots.

Forensic officers were called to the scene to conduct investigations on The Row in Sutton.

In a heartfelt tribute at the police cordon, one of Dunmore’s friends wrote: ‘For Josh. I can’t believe he’s writing this. This week was a celebration for you and your precious boy.

I pray that you can rest easy knowing that you fought every day for Ryan. Everything you did was for him and he will always know it.

She added in the memory: “I’ll remember to take back my smile like you always told me when I had a bitch face lounging in the gym.” SIBA will never be the same without you and your resourceful ways.

‘Keep scolding your rude boy. I love Harli.

And a close friend told the Mail: ‘He was a very loving person.’

Cambridgeshire Police say there was a “domestic element” in the murders on Wednesday night and feared the couple was the victim of a “targeted attack”, with the custody battle being an “active line of inquiry”.

Yesterday a 33-year-old woman, a 27-year-old man and a 66-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.

The younger couple were arrested at a hotel near Cambridge in the early morning and the older man was held in a dramatic seizure operation on the M5 near Droitwich, Worcestershire, more than 100 miles away, where officers used a device of sting to stop a white Peugeot. A shotgun was reportedly found.

Chief Superintendent Jon Hutchinson said: “At this time we are not looking for any further people in connection with the incident.” Once we identified that familial relationship, it became quite apparent why this attack could have occurred and it is clearly a targeted and isolated attack.”

He added: “One line of inquiry that we are focusing on is that the people in custody are known to the deceased and have had recent contact with them.”

Devastated friends and family have laid flowers at the scene in Meridian Close, Bluntisham, where Josh Dunmore was found dead.

Police have received reports of shots fired at a property in Meridian Close, Bluntisham (pictured) where Josh Dunmore was found dead

The two people detained at the hotel were “from the local area but we are trying to identify where they have been staying in recent days,” he said, adding that forensic work was underway to establish whether the same weapon was used on both. locations, along with an investigation into whether the firearm found had been legally owned.

Detective Inspector Mark Butler of the main crime unit added: “There is no increased risk to the general public.”

Yesterday there was a trampoline in the backyard of Josh’s redbrick house and a white van was parked outside. Flowers were also left there.

Neighbors were shocked by the two violent deaths on tree-lined streets where family homes sell for more than £500,000.

Designer Sarah Lown, 38, who lives near the two-unit house where twice-married builder Gary Dunmore lived, heard three loud bangs shortly after 9 pm Wednesday. “I thought something was blown,” she said. ‘I didn’t think anything crazy happened. Then I heard two more.

Gordon Murray, 62, who lives across the street, said: “There was a lot of screaming. Then I saw armed policemen.

The officers ordered Bluntisham residents to stay indoors as a helicopter circled overhead.

Retail worker Sharon Coulson, 58, said the village was “a good place to live, nice country walks, friendly, everyone says hello.”

Det Insp Butler said: “There will be an increased police presence in the areas involved today and officers and crime officers will be on the scenes.”

Autopsies will be carried out in the next few days.