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Gunmen shoot son of stab victim | |
(about 11 hours later) | |
The son of a man who was stabbed to death in a street fight in 2006, has been shot close to the scene of his father's killing. | |
Gary Devlin, 17, was shot in the leg on the Whiterock Road on Monday evening by three masked men who made off in a car. | |
The teenager was taken to hospital, but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. | |
Two years ago, his father, Gerard, was stabbed during a street fight between two feuding families in the area. | |
Bernadette O'Rawe, the aunt of Gerard Devlin, confirmed that Gary had been shot. | |
"He was at the chip shop with a friend," she said. | |
"A car pulled up and three men got out, they had balaclavas on and they chased them. He was shot with a shotgun as he ran away." | |
She said that a decision about whether to operate on the teenager had not been taken. | |
Ms O'Rawe said this was not a paramilitary punishment shooting. | |
"For anyone to shoot a kid is quite shocking," she said. "There are too many people carrying guns around here and there are criminal gangs." | |
A police spokesman said they were investigating the attack in which a teenager was shot in the right leg. | |
Gerard Devlin, 39, a father of six, was stabbed in the back in front of his family at Whitecliff Parade in west Belfast in February 2006 | |
Francisco Notarantonio, 21, of Whitecliff Parade, who admitted a charge of manslaughter, was jailed for 11 years at Belfast Crown Court last November. |
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