GARDAÍ ARE appealing to the public to assist in their investigation into the shooting dead of a father of two as he was trying to prevent a gun attack on the home of a family friend.
Wayne Doherty (32) was shot dead on the street outside his parents’ house at Oakview Way, Hartstown, west Dublin, at 11.30pm on Saturday, July 4th.
One month after the killing gardaí are now appealing for members of the public, particularly taxi men, who may have been in the area at the time, to contact them. The suspects for the killing have so far evaded gardaí.
Gardaí believe the fatal shooting was linked to a row at a christening party in a pub in Co Meath earlier on July 4th.
A man known to the Doherty family became involved in a physical altercation in the pub with another man from Clonsilla, west Dublin.
The man known to the Doherty family left the pub and rang Mr Doherty saying he believed his home, which is in the vicinity of the Doherty family home in Oakview Way, was about to be attacked arising from the pub row.
He asked Mr Doherty, a former pub bouncer and an accomplished boxer, to help him.
Later that night two cars carrying an unknown number of men pulled into Oakview Way. At least one of the men was armed with a sawn-off shotgun. Gardaí believe these men were associates of the man from Clonsilla who had been in the pub row with the man known to the Doherty family.
Mr Doherty was outside his parents’ home at Oakview Way with his brother and sister when the two cars pulled in. He crossed the road to confront the occupants of one of the vehicles.
As he did this, one of the men in the car produced a sawn-off shotgun. He fired two shots, one of which fatally wounded Mr Doherty in the side of the upper body.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Blanchardstown gardaí on 01- 6667037.
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