Complex sentence: Hook and the other soldier are being severely beaten by a mob, until a sympathetic woman manages to calm things down, however, the other soldier is suddenly shot dead at point blank range by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) gunman Paul Haggerty.
Split into simpler sentences: Hook and the other soldier are severely beaten by a mob, until a sympathetic woman manages to calm things down. However, the other soldier is suddenly shot dead at point blank range by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) gunman Paul Haggerty.