Dramatic CCTV footage of Ballymena shooting
A COUNTY Antrim couple have said they will not be forced from their home after shots were fired through their living room windows yesterday morning, in a row over flags.
Dramatic CCTV footage captured by the couple (available on the Newsletter website) shows a single gun man, wearing a dark balaclava approach the house in Ballymena and fire three shots with what appears to be a semi-automatic weapon.
The young man and woman who were in bed upstairs when the gun man opened fire on their home at 12.30am, say they have been singled out because they had spoken out against the erection of flags in the mainly unionist Rossdale estate in the south of Ballymena.
As the clean-up operation at their home cotinued yesterday , the couple who did not wish to be named, told the Newsletter that the shooting was the third attack in recent weeks.
“The first thing we heard was a long bang and then the living room window came in”, said the woman. “Total shock, that’s the only way we could decribe it. We had been attacked twice before, with stones and bricks thrown at the windows of the house and our car, but to have a gun fired at your home is frightening.”
