The World - News from Sept. 26, 1988
A part-time soldier of the Ulster Defense Regiment was fatally shot in an ambush outside his home near Armagh, 33 miles southeast of Belfast. The outlawed Irish Republican Army said two of its gunmen killed Stephen McKinney, 22, who was struck by a hail of 40 bullets while walking from his car to his house. The gunmen escaped. The predominantly Protestant, 6,500-member Ulster Defense Regiment, a British army auxiliary, frequently is targeted by the mainly Roman Catholic IRA, which is fighting to drive the British out of Northern Ireland.
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