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17/11/2008
Weekend Shooting Probed
Gardaí believe that a weekend shooting is linked to a drugs feud between criminals based in Finglas.
They said today that a Dublin man is now recovering in hospital after he was shot twice in the gun attack.
The 41-year-old victim had just been collected from a house at Cardiffsbridge Road when he was attacked just before midday on Saturday.
A gunman approached on foot and shot him once as he sat in the passenger seat of a car as his partner was driving.
He got out of the vehicle and tried to run from the gunman towards a house on the road.
He fell in the front garden and the gunman fired more shots from his handgun. One round wounded the victim in the stomach as he lay on the ground.
The gunman then ran from the scene as local people called emergency services. The wounded man was taken by ambulance to the Mater hospital.
His condition is described as critical but stable.
A short time after the incident Gardaí arrested two men for questioning. Both are in their 20s and from Finglas.
One of the men was arrested on foot on Cardiffsbridge Road while the other was stopped by Gardaí as he was driving a vehicle in nearby Glasnevin.
The men were detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act. They were questioned at Finglas and Blanchardstown Garda stations and one of the men was released without charge last night.
The second man had been released from his period of detention relating to the shooting but was being detained in Finglas last night on an outstanding bench warrant relating to a separate matter.
A file on the shooting is being prepared for the DPP.
(BMcC)
They said today that a Dublin man is now recovering in hospital after he was shot twice in the gun attack.
The 41-year-old victim had just been collected from a house at Cardiffsbridge Road when he was attacked just before midday on Saturday.
A gunman approached on foot and shot him once as he sat in the passenger seat of a car as his partner was driving.
He got out of the vehicle and tried to run from the gunman towards a house on the road.
He fell in the front garden and the gunman fired more shots from his handgun. One round wounded the victim in the stomach as he lay on the ground.
The gunman then ran from the scene as local people called emergency services. The wounded man was taken by ambulance to the Mater hospital.
His condition is described as critical but stable.
A short time after the incident Gardaí arrested two men for questioning. Both are in their 20s and from Finglas.
One of the men was arrested on foot on Cardiffsbridge Road while the other was stopped by Gardaí as he was driving a vehicle in nearby Glasnevin.
The men were detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act. They were questioned at Finglas and Blanchardstown Garda stations and one of the men was released without charge last night.
The second man had been released from his period of detention relating to the shooting but was being detained in Finglas last night on an outstanding bench warrant relating to a separate matter.
A file on the shooting is being prepared for the DPP.
(BMcC)
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