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 | |
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Part of the Troubles | |
Sinn Féin‘s Falls Road Office | |
Location | Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
Date | February 4, 1992 c. 1:15 p.m. (GMT) |
Target | Sinn Féin workers and activists |
Attack type | mass shooting, murder–suicide |
Weapon | Pump-action shotgun |
Deaths | 4 (including perpetrator) |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrator | James Allen Moore |
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