John Joseph Mongan (30) was attacked with a machete and hatchet after a gang broke into the couple's house in Fallswater Street in west Belfast on Thursday. Three people have appeared in court. Police believe that a Isuzu Trooper sports utility vehicle, registration VRM CNZ 5680, was in the area of Fallswater Street at around 2.30am on the night of the murder. The vehicle was later seen travelling west on the M1 Motorway and is believed to have passed through Clogher village shortly before 3.30am. The burnt out vehicle was discovered at Derrybrick Road, Kesh, Co Fermanagh, at around 9am. Mr Mongan's two young sons are understood to have witnessed the attack. His wife, who was injured in the attack, later gave birth to another son.
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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