Shooting victim Gary Carey’s family has been threatened online by someone linked to a major west Dublin gang.
Sources have also said that Carey, 41, is now expected to survive – despite suffering catastrophic injuries. He was blasted six times in the underground car park of the Hilton Hotel in Kilmainham, Dublin last Friday.
But just days after the shooting, the third attempt on Carey’s life in a year, a vile social media threat – aimed at him, his partner and child – was issued by an individual linked to the gang known as ‘The Family.’
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Posting a picture of Carey and his family to social media, the individual wrote: “Wot a lovely family….Imagine something was 2 appen em cos u were a rat (sic).”
The person also made fun of Carey’s inability to escape the gunman who chased him in the car park last Friday morning before shooting him multiple times. “Heard the gym asnt helped yir cardio (sic),” they wrote.
Despite still being in a serious condition in hospital, sources say Carey is expected to live. The threat on social media has now led gardai to believe Carey was targeted by the major criminal gang nicknamed ‘The Family’.
They’re considered second in size to the Kinahan cartel.
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