The World - News from Feb. 18, 1985
A senior Northern Ireland prison official was shot and killed as he, two of his children and their grandmother left St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh, 40 miles southwest of Belfast, after attending Mass. Police said that Patrick Kerr, 38, in charge of general security at the Maze prison in Dublin, was shot at point-blank range by two masked gunmen who escaped. The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the killing, saying Kerr had harassed IRA prison inmates.
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