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'Drugs Link' To Man Shot In Front Of Children
Thursday 3rd June 2004
A man shot dead today in front of children at a school near Belfast may have been the victim of a drugs row.
Kevin McAlorum was ambushed by two gunmen who rammed his car at Derriaghy on the southern outskirts of the city.
The victim, who was linked to the Irish National Liberation Army, had just dropped off a child at Oakwood Integrated Primary School.
The splinter republican terrorist organisation has a history of violent feuding.
McAlorum's sister, nine-year-old Barbara, was shot and killed at her north Belfast home in 1996, weeks after INLA chief of staff Gino Gallagher was murdered during an internal dispute.
It is understood detectives probing today's killing were examining a possible drugs motive for the attack.
'Drugs Link' To Man Shot In Front Of Children
Thursday 3rd June 2004
A man shot dead today in front of children at a school near Belfast may have been the victim of a drugs row.
Kevin McAlorum was ambushed by two gunmen who rammed his car at Derriaghy on the southern outskirts of the city.
The victim, who was linked to the Irish National Liberation Army, had just dropped off a child at Oakwood Integrated Primary School.
The splinter republican terrorist organisation has a history of violent feuding.
McAlorum's sister, nine-year-old Barbara, was shot and killed at her north Belfast home in 1996, weeks after INLA chief of staff Gino Gallagher was murdered during an internal dispute.
It is understood detectives probing today's killing were examining a possible drugs motive for the attack.
