A murder probe has been launched after a drug dealer shot just over a month ago died yesterday.
Gary “The Canary” Carey, 41, had been in hospital since the incident in the underground car park at The Hilton Hotel on Dublin’s South Circular Road after 11.30am on June 24.
Read more: Drug dealer Gary Carey shot at Hilton Hotel in Kilmainham in June dies in hospital
He was shot six times – including in the chest, arm and leg – but spoke to paramedics at the scene before he was brought to St James’s Hospital.
Although it was initially believed he would survive, the criminal, who had just returned from spending time in Spain, contracted sepsis in the middle of July which saw his condition deteriorate dramatically.
And at lunchtime yesterday he was pronounced dead. A Garda spokesman confirmed: “A man who was being treated in hospital for serious injuries following a shooting incident in an underground car park of a premises on the South Circular Road in Kilmainham, Dublin 8, on June 24, 2022, has died.
“Gardai have commenced a murder investigation.” No arrests have yet been made but the probe has established that a silver Audi was used as a getaway vehicle by the hit team and it’s believed it may have been left in the car park for some time prior to the attack.
The following weekend, it was found burnt out in Blessington, Co Wicklow.
Sources told how Carey, from Dublin, was targeted because he was “punching above his weight” in the drugs trade, and was encroaching on another major gang’s turf.
At the scene of the shooting, he told gardai that Brian “King Ratt” Rattigan’s gang was responsible. His associates previously targeted Carey after falling out some years ago.
Another theory gardai are investigating is that Carey may have been hit by the Dublin-based crime gang “The Family”.
Last November, Carey was shot at up to 10 times as he sat in a car in Ballyfermot Crescent in Dublin.
In March 2021, another hit-team also tried to kill him.
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