Innocent man shot talking to friends, inquest told

A YOUNG man killed when a gunman indiscriminately sprayed bullets into a group of friends gathered in a garden “was an innocent bystander who had stopped there for a chat”.

An inquest heard yesterday that Keith Fitzsimons, 23, of 196 Glingrove, Coolock, Dublin, was walking on Millbrook Road, Ayrfield, where he grew up, on June 2, 2006, when he stopped to talk to friends at number 20.

At 11.30pm, a gunman approached the house and shot at the people gathered there.