Shooting victim Gary Carey’s family has been threatened online by someone linked to a major West Dublin gang.
Sources have also said the 41-year-old 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”. 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.”
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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. They wrote: “Heard the gym asnt helped yir cardio.”
Despite still being in a serious condition in hospital, sources say Carey is expected to live. He previously survived being shot twice while sitting inside a car outside a house in Ballyfermot last November and escaped with minor graze injuries from an incident in March of that year.
The threat on social media has now led gardai to believe Carey was targeted by “The Family” who are considered second in size to the Kinahan cartel.
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