Man gets four years for accidentally shooting boy
A Finglas man who accidentally shot and almost killed an eight-year-old boy when he was shooting at birds with a pellet gun has been sentenced to four years by Judge Patricia Ryan.
Stephen Fitzpatrick (aged 19) of Finglaswood Road pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to recklessly discharging a firearm at and intentional or reckless endangerment of the now 10-year-old victim at Cabra Road on April 13, 2005.
