 Nine-year-old Patrick Rooney, the first child killed in the Troubles, was killed in the tower during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969, when the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) fired a Browning machine gun from its Shorland armoured car into the flats.The RUC claimed that it was coming under sniper attack from the tower at the time.Patrick Rooney's death took place during a day of street violence in the area.