1994 Shankill Road killings

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1994 Shankill Road killings
Part of the Troubles
The UVF's Headquarters, about 100 yards from the ambush site
Date 16 June 1994 Location Shankill Road, Belfast 54°36′15″N 5°57′11″W / 54.6043°N 5.9530°W / 54.6043; -5.9530 Result Successful Nationalist 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
class=notpageimage| 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]