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A teenager was shot multiple times in a firearm attack the night before in the latest gang attack in North Dublin.
Ardai learned of the shooting in the Marigold Park area of Darndale at 9 p.m., which is around the same time that the 19-year-old victim showed up at Beaumont Hospital.
It is understood that he was shot in the shoulder and leg, but his injuries have been described as non-fatal.
Gardai is investigating whether a motorcycle that was burned near the scene is related to the attack.
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Gardai preserves a burned motorcycle in Marigold Park in Darndale after a teenager who was shot multiple times in a firearm attack showed up at the hospital.
Steve Humphreys photo
Steve Humphreys photo
The victim is believed to have been in the company of at least one other man at the time of the shooting, in which an armed man may have used a machine gun on the motorcycle.
Attack
Investigations are underway to establish a motive for the incident, but one line of investigation is that it may be related to recent violence in the area, including a brutal stabbing attack in the town on Friday afternoon.
In that case, a 38-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in both legs and suffered a broken nose in Marigold Park at 1 p.m. last Friday.
Sources said a gang of ruthless teenage crack cocaine traffickers, led by a yob with close ties to the murdered gun victim David ‘Fred’ Lynch, were behind the attack after the victim was accused of attending the killer’s funeral for hire Robbie Lawlor.
One line in the investigation into last night’s attempted murder with a firearm was that it was a revenge attack for last week’s knife attack and that the target was not the injured teenager.
By the time Gardai and paramedics arrived on the scene in the Marigold Park area last night, the victim had already left in a car.
He was still being treated at Beaumont Hospital last night and no arrests have been made in the case that is being investigated by Coolock gardai.
Herald
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