Four escape shooting at home
They were in the front room of a house on Sperrin Road in Drimnagh when up to five shots were fired through the front window.
Gardaí said the attacker used a pump-action shotgun, which would have caused massive damage on impact.
“They were lucky none of them were killed,” said a garda source. “Four or five shots were fired from a pump action shotgun, with large slow rounds. ”
Detectives suspect the shooting is part of an internal row within one of the feuding gangs in the Crumlin/Drimnagh and Coombe part of the city.
The leader of the gang is serving time in jail.
In his absence, much of the gang’s business is being run by a 28-year-old man from Drimnagh.
This man is a top suspect for ordering the assassination of drugs importer John Carroll in the Coombe area last week.
Gardaí said the shooting took place at 6.55pm on Tuesday on a terraced house across the road from Our Lady of Good Counsel Church and just yards down from the local school.
Gardaí don’t know how many attackers were involved.
A woman, her son and his two friends were all in the room when the window was blown in. The boys are aged between 17 and 18.
They fled the room, through the kitchen and out the back door. They ran down the garden and jumped over fences into neighbouring gardens.
One of the youths dislocated his knee as he fled and had to be brought to St James’s Hospital.
Gardaí don’t have a description of the attacker or the getaway vehicle.
They suspect that a car found burnt out afterwards on Derry Drive, Crumlin may have been used.
A Garda helicopter was dispatched within minutes of the alert being raised.
The house was sealed off for technical examination.
*Anyone with information can contact Crumlin Gardaí on 01-6666200.
