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His name was Kevin McGovern a 19 year old agricultural student
from Cookstown, he was with two other companions at the time of
the shooting.
The IRA claimed that it was launching a mortar attack in the area
but it had to abandon the attack as a member of the public saw their
preparations.
A theory going around is that the students innocently walked into
the area, the security forces had mounted an operation in the area
on discovery of the aborted mortar attack.
The RUC statement said that they stopped a suspect taxi in the area
at 11:30pm, ten minutes later the 3 students ran from the area. They
( according to the statement ) were called upon to stop, warning shots
were fired in the air. Two students stopped, the third did not and
was fatally wounded.
The RUC said an object was thrown at a police vehicle, no object
has being found. Even though it was realised that the students
were not connected to any paramilitary group the two surviving
students were detained for 15 hours.
That's just from memory of a report I read in the Irish Times, so
any mistakes are mine.....
Ronan
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