PSNI officer was shot in front of his young son

PSNI officers at the scene of a shooting in the Killyclogher Road area of Omagh, where a man, a serving police officer, was injured in a shooting incident at a sports complex in Omagh on Wednesday evening. Picture: Oliver McVeigh/PA

The senior police officer shot in Omagh has been named as Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell as the PSNI said the primary focus of the investigation is on dissident republicans.

Mr Caldwell remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital after the attack at a sports complex in Omagh, Co Tyrone, on Wednesday evening.