The World - News from April 5, 1989

The outlawed Irish Republican Army said it shot and wounded a part-time police officer after one of its members was killed in bed at his home in Northern Ireland while his 3-month-old daughter slept in a crib beside him. Gerard Casey, 29, was shot by two men who stormed into his home in Balleymoney, 40 miles northwest of Belfast. Police said Protestants were responsible. The IRA, in messages to Belfast media, said Casey was a member of its North Antrim brigade. Later, a part-time police officer who had stopped his car at a pedestrian crossing in Belfast was shot and wounded by men firing from the sidewalk, police said. The IRA said it carried out the attack.