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Two men have been placed in pretrial detention charged with the murder of Robbie Lawlor in Belfast earlier this year.
The 36-year-old, originally from Dublin, was shot and killed outside a house in North Belfast in April.
Patrick Teer, 45, of Thornberry Hill in Belfast, and Adrian Holland, 37, of Woodleigh Terrace in Derry, are jointly charged with the murder.
Appearing together in Belfast Magistrates Court, the two men also faced an additional charge of possessing a firearm, namely a 9mm pistol, with the intention of endangering life.
A judge was told that the alleged evidence against him is based on license plate recognition and cell site analysis.
Lawlor was shot multiple times and died at the scene on Etna Drive in the Ardoyne district on April 4.
The suspects appeared remotely from a police custody suite in Belfast.
Both men spoke only to confirm that they understood the charges.
Defense representatives confirmed that none of the defendants were seeking bail at this time.
A legal representative for Teer described it as a “complex case” and said there were a lot of CCTV footage.
District Judge Steven Keown ordered them into pretrial detention to appear again via video link on January 8.
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