Irish Examiner view: Added shade of horror

Shooting of PSNI officer

A forensic investigator from Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) takes photographs near to the sports complex in the Killyclogher Road area of Omagh, Co Tyrone, where off-duty PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell was shot a number of times by masked men in front of young people he had been coaching

The shooting of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell of the PSNI on Wednesday evening has shocked the entire island of Ireland, and the details of the incident which have emerged so far do little to reduce that sense of shock.

Caldwell was attacked by a group of masked men after coaching a group of young people at a Tyrone sports complex; he was reportedly putting footballs in his car boot when shot. His own son was present.