Garda\u00ed investigating an ongoing feud between two drug gangs in Ballymun are searching for a gun that was fired by a child in the area yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The series of events which led to the shooting began around 3pm yesterday when a man armed with a handgun was seen near Ballymun Garda Station, where a second man was being detained.<\/p>\n
Both are suspected of being involved in the feud.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed approached the man with the firearm, but he ran away and was pursued.<\/p>\n
He threw the gun into bushes as he made his escape, but it was subsequently picked up and fired by a child, believed to be around 11 years old.<\/p>\n
No one was injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n
A short time later two men arrived on an electric bike and took the gun away.<\/p>\n
The weapon has still not been recovered in spite of intensive searches by garda\u00ed and armed units.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed subsequently arrested two males, a man in his 20’s and a teenager, in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n
They were detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act.<\/p>\n
The man in his 20s is still being questioned in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n
The teenager has been released without charge pending a file to the DPP.<\/p>\n
The feud between two street gangs in Ballymun over control of the drugs trade has been ongoing for more than a year and has led to several serious violent incidents, including the death of one man, which garda\u00ed are treating as murder.<\/p>\n
Kevin Kelly, who was in his 20\u2019s, was killed by a car on Balbutcher Lane in the early hours of 28 June last year.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed believe he was deliberately knocked down as part of the feud.<\/p>\n
It is one of a number of feuds in the area which the garda\u00ed in Ballymun are currently investigating, including a feud among members of the travelling community which has led to more than 20 violent attacks, including serious assaults and arson attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigating an ongoing feud between two drug gangs in Ballymun are searching for a gun that was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-423291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}