1994 Shankill Road killings

1994 Shankill Road killings
Part of the Troubles

The UVF's Headquarters, about 100 yards from the ambush site
Date16 June 1994
Location54°36′15″N 5°57′11″W / 54.6043°N 5.9530°W / 54.6043; -5.9530
Result Successful Irish National Liberation Army ambush and getaway
Belligerents
Irish National Liberation Army UVF
Commanders and leaders
Gino Gallagher
Hugh Torney
Trevor King 
Strength
4 volunteers 3 UVF members
Casualties and losses
None 3 UVF killed
1 civilian wounded
1994 Shankill Road killings is located in Greater Belfast
1994 Shankill Road killings
Ambush location within Belfast

The 1994 Shankill Road killings took place on 16 June 1994 when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) members – high-ranking member of the UVF Belfast Brigade staff Trevor King and two other UVF members, Colin Craig and David Hamilton – on the Shankill Road in Belfast, close to the UVF headquarters. The following day, the UVF launched two retaliatory attacks. In the first, UVF members shot dead a Catholic civilian taxi driver in Carrickfergus. In the second, they shot dead two Protestant civilians in Newtownabbey, who they believed were Catholics.[1] The Loughinisland massacre, two days later, is believed to have been a further retaliation.[2]

  1. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". Conflict Archive on the Internet. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  2. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". Conflict Archive on the Internet. Retrieved 11 March 2018.