A man who died seven weeks after being shot in the head and body was suspected of involvement in two recent shootings, one of them fatal.
Carl Wynne died in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, this morning after he was shot and wounded four times on May 30th in Tallaght.
The 45-year-old from Russell Court, Tallaght, was sitting on a wall outside St Dominic’s Shopping Centre, Mountain Park Road, Tallaght, when two men on a motorbike pulled up at 9.50pm.
One of the men opened fire, wounding Wynne three times in the chest and once in the head, before he was driven from the scene on the back of the motorbike by his accomplice.
The victim was taken to Tallaght Hospital where he had been on a life support machine until his death this morning.
Gardai believe Wynne had been offering to carry out gangland related shootings for payment and they are probing these links to the Dublin underworld as the reason for his murder.
He had spent time in prison and was jailed for seven years in 1999 after robbing a building society in Cork of £3,000. He was armed with a knife at the time and used a taxi as a getaway vehicle.
When a man was shot at and wounded four times in an attack earlier this year but survived, gardai came into intelligence from criminal sources that suggested Wynne had carried out the shooting. He was arrested and questioned.
A key line of inquiry into Wynne’s shooting has centred on his alleged involvement in the murder of Dubliner Alan Desmond, whose decomposed remains were found in a field at Killinarden Hill, Tallaght, on May 20th.
He had been shot in the head and lay dead for at least two weeks in a wooded area next to a housing estate.
His body was found by children who had gone to retrieve a football. After the alarm was raised it subsequently emerged that local children had seen the body several times over the preceding week to 10 days.
Desmond, a 38-year-old from Kilclare Ave, Tallaght, had been caught with a number of firearms earlier this year, including three rifles, a handgun and two sawn-off shotguns.
Gardai believe Desmond was shot dead by Wynne in an attack paid for by the gangland criminals who owned the guns and were fearful Wynne was about to supply information to the Garda on the origins of the weapons and also wanted to punish him for losing the guns to the Garda.