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Four children escape injury in two separate shootings in Coleraine
Overview
Four children and three adults have escaped injury following two separate shootings in Coleraine in the early hours of Monday, which the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are treating as attempted murder. Shots were fired at properties on Maythorn Avenue and Silverthorn Avenue within twenty minutes of each other.
Key points
- Four children and three adults escaped injury across two separate gun attacks in Coleraine.
- The PSNI is treating both shootings, which occurred in the early hours of Monday, as attempted murder.
- The first incident involved shots fired through a window at a house on Maythorn Avenue with five people inside, including three children and a three-year-old in bed.
- The Maythorn Avenue property belongs to Dan Grundle, an activist with the anti-immigration group Our Northern Ireland Voice.
- A second shooting occurred about twenty minutes later at a property on Silverthorn Avenue, where one adult and one child were inside.
- Police have appealed for anyone with information regarding the investigations to come forward.