Ronan Kerr was a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer killed by a booby-trap car bomb planted outside his home on 2 April 2011 at Highfield Close, just off the Gortin Road (the B48), near Killyclogher on the northern outskirts of Omagh in County Tyrone.
[7][8] On 6 April, a peace rally was organised in Belfast by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu), which was reported to have been attended by up to 7000 persons.
[10] BBC Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson commented, in relation to the unified response of the community, "A murder designed to divide people has actually brought them closer together.
"[6] Graffiti praising the murder was daubed on walls in predominantly republican areas of Derry.
[4] On 16 May 2017, officers from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch arrested two men under the Terrorism Act in connection with the murder.