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Residents of County Clare will come together today to honor a mother and her two children who tragically lost their lives in County Fermanagh. Vanessa Whyte, aged 45, her 14-year-old son James Rutledge, and her 13-year-old daughter Sara Rutledge were fatally shot in their residence in Maguiresbridge.
In a moving service of removal held in the village on Wednesday, Fr Raymond Donnelly, the priest, expressed to the mourners that the victims had been robbed of their lives in a horrific manner. The bodies will be laid to rest together in repose at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Barefield, Ms Whyte’s hometown, from 3:00 to 7:00 PM BST.
A private removal will then take place on Saturday morning, leading to a funeral Mass at 12:00 in the chapel. Ms Whyte and her children will be laid to rest side by side in Templemaley Cemetery. The community gathered for a prayer service at the County Clare chapel on Sunday, where parish priest Fr Tom Fitzpatrick referred to the incident as an “indescribable tragedy.”
The incident occurred on July 23rd, when emergency services responded to the home of Ms Whyte and her children on the Drummeer Road, situated about 75 miles west of Belfast and eight miles from the largest town in the county, Enniskillen. Two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while the third passed away later at the South West Acute Hospital. Subsequent to the attack, it was revealed that a man from the household was receiving medical treatment for gunshot wounds. The authorities stated that a suspected triple murder and attempted suicide were among the lines of inquiry for detectives. Unfortunately, the man suspected of the killings, 43-year-old Ian Rutledge, passed away in the hospital on Monday night. Detectives working on the case urged anyone with information, no matter how insignificant, to step forward
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