A 20 year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in Tallaght last month.
Three men were shot, one of them fatally, as they sat in a car in the driveway of a house in Kilmartin Drive, Tallaght on the night of Monday, January 19th.
Two men, both believed to have been armed with 9mm handguns, walked up to the car and fired a volley of rounds into it. The dead man, Stephen O'Halloran (20), was shot in the head as he sat in the driver's seat of the car outside his mother and stepfather's home.
The other two men tried to run from the gunmen but as they fled they were shot in the upper body. Neighbours took them into their homes and tried to attend to their wounds before an ambulance arrived.
A garda patrol car in the area heard the gunfire and sped to the scene within one minute of the attack. However, the gunmen narrowly escape by running into Kilmartin Park and onto Kilmartin Gardens before fleeing in the direction of Fettercairn Road.
Gardai from Tallaght, assisted by Gardai from the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, carried out searches at three houses in the Tallaght area this morning.
The man was arrested during the operation, and is detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act at Tallaght Garda Station.