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DUBLIN (AP) - Northern Ireland detectives charged an Irish Catholic teenager Monday with murdering a policeman - the first charge stemming from two deadly gun attacks by Irish Republican Army dissidents this month that rocked the country’s peace process.
The 17-year-old boy was arrested the day after the March 9 killing of Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, in an attack claimed by a splinter group called the Continuity IRA. In keeping with police practice, the suspect was not publicly identified pending his arraignment Tuesday in court in Lisburn, a Belfast suburb.
In a statement the Police Service of Northern Ireland said the teenager would face criminal counts of murder, possession of a firearm, collecting information likely to be of use to terrorists, and membership in the outlawed Continuity IRA.
