‘Crossbow killing’ in the street stuns community

Neighbour says man covered in blood was taken away in ambulance

Tributes have been paid to a Dundee man killed with a crossbow.

The man, named locally as Gordon Adams and also known as Gordon Robert Diduca, was given treatment in the street but died of his injuries.

Police say they are treating the incident as suspicious and are following “positive lines of inquiry”.

Nobody was available for comment at his family home in the north of Dundee last night, but friends and family paid tribute to Gordon on social media.

Gordon’s cousin Sandra Nicoll said: “Would like to say RIP to my little cousin Gordon. He was 24, a prankster, laughable, would help anyone if he could but he certainly didn’t deserve to be killed in the middle of a street.”

Friend Dylan Queen said: “I seriously don’t know what to say right now still in shock, saw you only a few hours ago and now your gone, had so many great memories with you bro, your at rest now and will be missed so much. Love you bro – feeling shocked.”

Following the tragedy, a fundraiser was set up to raise £500 to help pay for Gordon’s funeral.

His family hope to raise funds to pay for the service after previously paying for the funeral of the 24-year-old’s mum Janice, who died in May from cancer.

Emergency services were called to Dundonald Court at around 10.50pm on Sunday.

Neighbours say there had been a loud party in the flat but at around 10.50pm an incident spilled on to Arklay Street and across the road to Fairbairn Street.

Residents heard panicked cries for help and someone begging for an ambulance to be called.

It is understood Mr Adams was fatally injured with an arrow, thought to have been fired from a crossbow.

Another man is also understood to have sustained minor injuries.

Police sealed off the bottom third of Arklay Street while their investigations into the incident began.

Scene of crime officers were seen picking through hedges next to the block of flats at Dundonald Court.

It is understood Mr Adams had been living in the block.

Neighbours expressed their shock yesterday.

One Fairbairn Street resident, who asked not to be named, said: “I called the ambulance at 10.50pm.

“Somebody was in the street shouting ‘please call an ambulance’.

“I looked out and there was a man lying covered in blood. They were working on his chest and then he was taken away in an ambulance.

“He was older and heavyset. I saw a younger man, a teenager, being taken away in by police.”

The woman added: “I didn’t see an arrow. I heard he was shot with a bow and arrow or a crossbow.”

She later put down flowers outside the flats where the incident occurred.

“It’s such a violent death,” she said.

Shopkeeper Shahid Mohammed, who runs the Best One convenience store at the foot of Arklay Street, said: “I came to work and the cordon was already there.

“People have been coming in and saying somebody has been murdered. One said ‘somebody got murdered with a bow and arrow’.”

A spokesman for Police Scotland’s Tayside Division confirmed the death is being treated as suspicious.

They added that officers are following “positive lines of inquiry”. No arrests have yet been made.

Police and forensics officers at the flats in Dundonald Court, Arklay Street, where a man was found dead on Sunday evening.

Gordon Adams, above, died from his injuries after a party in Dundonald Court.