Feb. 24 (UPI) — Detectives in Northern Ireland mentioned Friday they’d arrested a fourth man underneath the Terrorism Act in reference to the tried homicide of a senior police officer in Omagh.

The 22-year-old man was arrested 35 miles away close to the city of Coalisland on suspicion of involvement within the taking pictures of Detective Chief Constable John Caldwell on Wednesday night, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a news release.

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He is at the moment being questioned by detectives.

Three different males aged 38, 45 and 47 years who had been arrested yesterday, stay in police custody.

Caldwell, 58, who was shot a number of occasions by two gunmen as he coached an area under-11s soccer crew at a sports activities advanced, suffered life-changing accidents.

He stays critically ill and heavily sedated in hospital after he was gunned down in entrance of his son.

No one has claimed accountability for the assault.

Police mentioned yesterday that the principal line of investigation centered on dissident republican teams.

“We are keeping an open mind,” PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan told a press conference.

“There are multiple strands to that investigation. The primary focus is on violent dissident republicans and within that, there is a primary focus as well on New IRA.”

Caldwell is a well known senior policing determine with a excessive profile from performing media duties because the lead officer on a number of high-profile circumstances, together with dissident republican violence and gang murders.

The leaders of the 5 important events issued a strongly worded statement condemning the assault and interesting to the general public to help the investigation.

“We speak for the overwhelming majority of people right across our community who are outraged and sickened by this reprehensible and callous attempted murder,” the joint assertion learn.

“There is absolutely no tolerance for such attacks by the enemies of our peace. Those responsible must be brought to justice.”

The assertion was signed by Michelle O’Neill, of Sinn Fein; Jeffrey Donaldson, of the Democratic Unionist occasion; Naomi Long, of Alliance; Doug Beattie, of the Ulster Unionist occasion; and Colum Eastwood, of the Social Democratic and Labour occasion.

The so-called New IRA, a splinter group that sprang out of the IRA because it ready to put down its weapons as a part of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 that introduced peace to Northern Ireland, has continued to focus on cops.

In November, two police officers escaped injury when the New IRA detonated an improvised explosive gadget close to their automobile within the city of Strabane 20 miles away from Omagh.

It was the primary profitable assault since PSNI officer Ronan Kerr, a 25-year-old Roman Catholic, was killed by a booby trap device planted exterior his residence in Omagh in 2011.

Omagh is the scene of the deadliest incident of the three-decade-long troubles when the New IRA detonated a automobile bomb within the city in August 1998 killing 29 folks and injuring 220, the repercussions of which rumble on as we speak.

Earlier this month, the British authorities launched a public inquiry into the bombing.