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<\/p>\nHe is also accused of the attempted murder of taxi driver Sean O\u2019Reilly in February.<\/p>\n
The suspect (50), who was arrested in north Belfast on Tuesday, has also been charged with firearms offences in relation to both incidents.<\/p>\n
He is expected to appear before Belfast Magistrates Court on Thursday morning<\/p>\n
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Stock Image: Armed police arrested the man on Tuesday<\/p>\n
Watch: Forensics at the scene of shooting in west Belfast <\/p>\n
The man had also been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Jim Donegan, also in Belfast, in December 2018, but he is not facing any charges in relation to this.<\/p>\n
As is usual procedure, all charges are reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n
The arrest of the suspect on Tuesday was made following a search by the PSNI\u2019s Major Investigation Team in north Belfast.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Gina Quinn said: \u201cIn respect of the attempted murder in west Belfast, a 49-year-old man was shot as he sat inside a taxi in the Bell Steel Manor area on the morning of Sunday 23 February. We believe two gunmen approached the vehicle on foot, and a number of shots were fired in a cold-blooded attack intended to kill.<\/p>\n
\u201cDanny McClean, aged 54, was murdered on the evening of 2 February 2021. He was shot a number of times by a gunman as he sat in a car parked in the driveway of a property on the Cliftonville Road in north Belfast.<\/p>\n
\u201cJim Donegan, aged 43, was murdered as he waited, in his car, to collect his son from school. This was in the Glen Road area of west Belfast on the afternoon of 4 December 2018. Mr Donegan was shot several times by a gunman.\u201d<\/p>\n
The attempted murder charge is in relation to dissident Sean O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n
The attack on Mr O\u2019Reilly sparked fears of a violent retaliation amid an escalating feud between members of the dissident gang Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH) earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The victim was sitting in his car outside the taxi firm where he works in Poleglass when two masked men approached his vehicle shortly before 10.30am and fired multiple shots.<\/p>\n
The wounded driver was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital where and was initially described as being in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n
Mr Donegan was shot dead in his Porsche car as he waited to collect his 13-year-old son outside St Mary’s Christian Brothers School in 2018.<\/p>\n
A Police Ombudsman probe previously said the PSNI “missed opportunities” to identify the subject of a dissident republican threat six months before the killing \u2013 the watchdog found a failure by police to link him to intelligence it received about a threat on an unnamed man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He is also accused of the attempted murder of taxi driver Sean O\u2019Reilly in February. The suspect (50),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,5825,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-102525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-niamh-campbell","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114509839293679087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}