Coroner – Man shot in back by soldiers in ‘unjustified’ killing Updated: January 21, 2021, 1:05 pm Paddy McElhone, 24, died near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone after sustaining a fatal gunshot wound in an incident involving a military patrol (Niall Carson/PA). The shooting dead of a farmer by the Army in Northern Ireland in 1974 was “unjustified”, a coroner said. Paddy McElhone, 24, died near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy, Co Tyrone after sustaining a wound through the back fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Wales. The inquest into Mr McElhone’s death was the first in a series of coroners’ probes into deaths associated with Northern Ireland’s 30-year conflict.