Mother of six shot dead in family home, inquest told
THE grim details of how an innocent mother-of-six was gunned down in a horrific attack on a family home were laid bare yesterday.
Antoinette Corbally, 48, was shot in the head as she stood in the hallway of her home in August.
Locksmith Clinton Shannon, who also had no links to criminality, was sitting in his car when he was also gunned down.
It’s understood that Ms Corbally’s brother Derek Devoy was the intended target in the botched gun attack in Ballymun,
Gunmen also killed innocent locksmith
north Dublin, on August 16, 2017.
Devoy was carrying his son as he walked into his sister’s home to pick up a child seat for a car when two gunmen ran up behind him, gardaí believe.
The duo were armed with a handgun and submachine gun, and opened fire on Devoy.
The convicted criminal threw the baby onto the floor and fled towards the back door. He scaled the back wall and escaped uninjured.
However, Ms Corbally, from Balbutcher Drive, Ballymun, was shot several times. Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane opened the inquest into the two deaths at Dublin Coroner’s Court yesterday.
Mr Shannon, from Lincoln Hall, Applewood in Swords, died of gunshot injuries to the neck and chest according to an postmortem by State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy. His brother Tom Shannon gave evidence that he later went to the scene of the double shooting at Balbutcher Drive on August 16.
‘I formally identified the body of my brother to Detective Garda Mick Harkin of Ballymun Garda Station,’ he said in his deposition.
Mr Shannon had no involvement in crime, according to gardaí.
The Garda investigation into the double murder is ongoing, Superintendent Colm Fox told the inquest. He applied for a sixmonth adjournment of the inquest to allow for ongoing inquiries.
Adjourning the inquest for further mention on May 10 next year, Dr Cullinane offered her condolences to family members.