Complex sentence: A FSA officer approached him as he lay on the ground and shot him at point-blank range, he died next day in Dun Laoire Hospital, but not before he gave a death-bed declaration that he had had his hands up when shot.
Split into simpler sentences: A FSA officer approached him as he lay on the ground and shot him at point-blank range. He died next day in Dun Laoghaire Hospital, but not before he gave a deathbed declaration that he had had his hands up when shot.