1992 Sinn Féin Headquarters shooting

The 1992 Sinn Féin Headquarters shooting, also known as the Sevastopol Street shooting, was a mass shooting committed by an off-duty RUC officer on 4 February 1992, at Sinn Féin's Falls Road office on Sevastopol Street in Belfast.

Sinn Féin Headquarters shooting
Part of the Troubles
Sinn Féin‘s Falls Road Office
LocationBelfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
DateFebruary 4, 1992
c. 1:15 p.m. (GMT)
TargetSinn Féin workers and activists
Attack type
mass shooting, murder–suicide
WeaponPump-action shotgun
Deaths4 (including perpetrator)
Injured2
PerpetratorJames Allen Moore
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