GARDAÍ HAVE said they are looking for a gang of several men in connection with the killing of a 20-year-old in Dublin on Wednesday.
Tommy Joyce was shot in the head and chest outside his home on the Grove Lane halting site near Darndale, north Dublin, just after 7.30pm on Wednesday. He was taken to Beaumont Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A postmortem examination, performed yesterday by State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy, showed he was shot five times: once in the head, twice in the body and twice in the buttocks.
Speaking yesterday, Supt Mark Curran of Coolock Garda station said a number of shots were fired by a group of men who then left the scene in a blue Ford Focus estate and travelled towards the Darndale roundabout. The car was later found burned out in the Balgriffin Cottages area of Coolock.
Coolock gardaí were being assisted in their investigation by the National Bureau of Criminal Investigations and the Garda Technical Bureau, Mr Curran said.
“I am appealing to any members of the public who may have been in the vicinity of Malahide Road or Balgriffin Cottages between 7pm and 8pm [on Wednesday] and who may have witnessed anything suspicious or unusual [to contact the gardaí],” he said. He appealed to anyone who had information about the murder to contact the incident room at Coolock Garda station (01-6664200), or to telephone the Garda confidential phoneline (1 800 666 111)
Mr Joyce was named in the High Court earlier this year by the head of the Criminal Assets Bureau as a member of a north Dublin drug-trafficking gang.
