Anthony Kelly 'escapes another murder attempt'
A brother of the late Limerick criminal Michael Kelly has claimed that he "narrowly" escaped another attempt on his life, when a gunman fired at him near his home.
Anthony Kelly was travelling in a van near his Southill home in Limerick's O'Malley Park yesterday afternoon, when a shot was fired at him, by a gunman wielding a standard shotgun.
The shot missed the 44-year-old, but the gunman then fired a second shot at the home of one of Mr Kelly's brothers, before fleeing the area.
Yesterday's shooting followed a separate attack earlier this week on Mr Kelly's brothers home when, he claimed yesterday, a gang used slash hooks to smash a number of windows in the house.
Gardaí in Roxboro have confirmed that they have received a formal complaint from Mr Kelly and they are investigating the latest incident.
This week's attempted shooting comes just over a month after Anthony Kelly suffered pellet wounds to the side of his face when he was shot at on March 10 last, outside his home in O'Malley Park in Limerick.
At the time the 44-year-old father of six claimed that the same gunman theatened him some 12 hours later warning him that he "would be put down on top of his brother Michael" who died last year.
Michael Kelly died on June 13 last, four weeks after he was found in a coma at his mother's home in Lilac Court in Southill, Limerick.
The self-confessed criminal and former Limerick city councillor died after suffering a mystery gun shot wound to his head.
Anthony Kelly has always denied that the gunshot wound was self inflicted and claimed his brother was shot by a lone gunman.
Mr Kelly also orchestrated the exhumation of his brother's body, shortly after he was buried, to dispel certain media reports which suggested that a gun had been buried in his brother's coffin.
Gardaí believe the attacks on the Kelly family are linked to an ongoing feud between two families in the Southill area.
However, Anthony Kelly denies that his family are part of any feud. Before his dealth Mr Kelly's late brother Michael was involved heavily in brokering a controversial "peace pact" with another family living in Southill.
This involved the withdrawing of a large number of formal statements relating to cases under investigation at the time and resulted in the collapse of a number of trials.
Meanwhile, in a unrelated incident gardaí at Henry Street in Limerick are investigation a gun attack on the opposite side of the city at a house at Craeval Park in Moyross in the early hours of yesterday morning.
A bathroom window at the house was shattered when a number of shots were fired, but fortunatly no one was injured. It's understood yesterday' early morning shooting is connected to a simmering local feud which is not part of the high-profile Keane/Ryan feud. No arrests have been made.
