A man has been arrested in connection with the double murder of two men in Dublin last November.
Glen Murphy (20) of O’Devaney Gardens, North Circular Road, and his cousin Mark Noonan (23) of Drumalee, also North Circular Road were shot dead at a service station in Finglas on November 21st.
The man arrested this morning is aged in his 20s. He is being held a t Finglas Garda Station under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939.
Mr Murphy and Mr Noonan had been at a female friend’s apartment on Rathbourne Drive, Finglas, on Tuesday night when they decided to go to the Tesco petrol station beside the Tesco Clearwater shopping centre in Finglas, for cigarettes.
They drove in Mr Noonan’s dark grey Toyota Avensis to the Tesco petrol station at the Clearwater shopping centre on Finglas Road, arriving just after 11.40pm.They parked their car beside the shop in the service station and both walked towards the service hatch.
A dark-coloured BMW 5 series carrying three men pulled alongside. Two of the occupants, sitting in the front passenger and back seat, opened fired on their targets from the moving vehicle with automatic pistols.
Mr Noonan was hit in the back and the back of the head as he stood at the service hatch. Mr Murphy scrambled back into the Avensis to hide from the gunmen.
However, the gunmen’s car slowed almost to a halt and one of the armed men got out, walked over to the Avensis and shot Mr Murphy in the upper body and head.
The killer, who wore a hooded jacket which was possibly dark green, then got back into the BMW, which was driven at speed from the scene. The emergency services were alerted but a doctor who attended the scene pronounced both men dead.
The killings were captured on CCTV and have been studied in detail by gardaí.