He was taken to hospital where he remained in a serious condition until the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) announced he had died on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
It is understood he was the only suspect in the murder investigation.<\/p>\n
Vanessa Whyte, 45,<\/a><\/strong> a vet originally from County Clare, her son James, 14, and daughter Sara, 13, were all shot dead at a property on Drummeer Road during the attack.<\/p>\n The PSNI said last week that all four people who were shot were members of the same household.<\/p>\n Police have been investigating whether the attack was a triple murder and attempted suicide.<\/p>\n A prayer service took place for Ms Whyte and the two children in Barefield, County Clare on Sunday, following a community vigil in Maguiresbridge last Friday.<\/p>\n A funeral service is expected to take place in County Clare later this week.<\/p>\n Following Mr Rutledge’s death, the PSNI said detectives have “reiterated their appeal for anyone with information, no matter how insignificant it may seem, to come forward”.<\/p>\n It comes after the PSNI issued an appeal on Saturday for information involving the movements of a vehicle.<\/p>\n They have asked anyone who saw a silver Mercedes saloon car being driven in the Clones Road area of Newtownbutler, or between Maguiresbridge and Newtownbutler, on the evening of Tuesday 22 July to call detectives on 101.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News:<\/strong> Image: Tributes paid to ‘lovely-natured’ children<\/strong><\/p>\n A local Gaelic football club said last week that Ms White and her children were all “active and beloved” members of their club.<\/p>\n Sara and James Rutledge also used to be part of a local cricket club, which said in a statement that it was “extremely saddened by the tragic events”.<\/p>\n “Both of them turned out to be talented young cricketers and two absolutely lovely-natured children,” the statement read.<\/p>\n Flowers, teddy bears and an Arsenal football top with written notes were laid close to scene of the incident in Drummeer Road in the days after the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect in the fatal shooting of a mother and her two children in Northern Ireland has died.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-300036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114934155029642027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300036","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=300036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Maguiresbridge\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skynews-northern-ireland-maguiresbridge_6971634.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Lionesses celebrate Euros triumph at No 10<\/a><\/strong>
Trump reignites row with London mayor<\/a><\/strong>
The view from a plane dropping aid to Gaza<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skynews-maguiresbridge-fermanagh_6971696.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\n A police cordon was in place close to the scene last week. Pic: PA<\/p>\n