TRAGIC GLENARM SHOOTING VICTIMS NAMED

Police cordon off the scene of a double fatal shooting in Glenarm, Co Antrim on Friday evening

Police cordon off the scene of a double fatal shooting in Glenarm, Co Antrim on Friday evening

THE PSNI has named the two men found dead in a Co Antrim farmhouse following a tragic shooting incident.

They were Arthur Gibson, 61, and Michael Murphy, aged 37.

The two men – believed to be a farmer and a farm worker – were found dead in Glenarm on Friday after the alarm was raised.

It is understood the victims were pronounced dead at the scene of a farmhouse on the Feystown Road in Glenarm around teatime on Friday evening.

Both were well known and respected in the area.

Local farmers, devastated at the news, have been helping out on Saturday to milk the farmer’s dairy herd.

Forensic officers spent Friday evening at the scene carrying out a fingertip search.

They are return on Saturday to resume their searches.

However, detectives are not looking for anyone in connection with the shooting.

A firearm has been recovered from the scene for a forensic examination.

A post mortem on the two remains is expected to be carried out in the next few days.

Uniform police were called to the farmhouse on the Feystown Road around 5.15 pm.

It followed an emergency call that both men had been found with fatal wounds.

The PSNI said: “An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths is underway.”

Local politicians on Friday night expressed their shock and horror at the double deaths.

SDLP councillor Martin Wilson said: “The whole community will be united in their sense of grief at this shocking and disturbing occurrence.

“Both men were well-known and their untimely deaths will be met with disbelief by those living in the community.

“All our thoughts and prayers are surely with the families at this very difficult time.”

North Antrim Sinn Fein MLA Oliver McMullan said people in Glenarm, a small village with a population of less than 600, were stunned at the double fatality.

‘People are just in disbelief. They are shocked and horrified at the news.

“It’s a very close-knit community in that Feystown area and everybody knows everybody very well.”

Mr McMullan said both of the men who died were well known in the local area and he expressed his sympathy to their families.

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