Lt Conor McDowell (24) fatally injured when vehicle overturned in California
Lt Hugh Conor McDowell was killed when a light armoured vehicle he was travelling in overturned during an exercise inLt McDowell was the only child of Michael McDowell, a Belfast-born journalist, and his wife,
. Mr McDowell has been Washington-based most of his life and used his contacts in the US administration to facilitate meetings in the early stages of the peace process., which was set up to keep watch on the activities of republican and loyalist paramilitaries in the North.page, Mr McDowell paid tribute to his son and said there would be a “massive hole in our hearts” due to his death.
“He was our only beloved child, in whom we were well pleased. We hope to meet again with our son in some way at some time as we pass on, as he has, at so young an age, and with so much of life ahead of him.”
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