Northern Ireland

Six escape injury in Craigavon gun attack

A shot was fired through the kitchen window of the house at Lakeview Court in the Drumgor area of Craigavon
A shot was fired through the kitchen window of the house at Lakeview Court in the Drumgor area of Craigavon A shot was fired through the kitchen window of the house at Lakeview Court in the Drumgor area of Craigavon

SIX people including two children escaped injury in a gun attack on a house in Craigavon.

A shot was fired through the kitchen window of the property at Lakeview Court in the Drumgor area.

Four adults and two children were inside the house when the attack happened just after 10pm on Wednesday.

It is understood one of the people inside at the time was a man gunned down in March in front of terrified children as they left school.

James Carlisle was collecting his child from St Brendan's Primary School in Craigavon when he was hit several times in the drive-by shooting.

He was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.

Carlisle, aged in his thirties, is well-known to police and has several violent criminal convictions.

He had been involved in a feud with drug dealer Hugh McGeough before he and his wife Jacqueline were shot dead at their home in 2011.

Carlisle and his associate Malcolm McKeown were charged with the murders, but the case was dropped in 2013.

Police appealed for anyone with information about Wednesday's gun attack to contact them.

DUP Upper Bann MLA Carla Lockhart urged anyone with information to contact police.

"This is a shocking attack where once again firearms have been used on the streets of Craigavon," she said.

"Those behind the incident clearly have no regard for the lives of anyone living in this neighbourhood or indeed anyone in the wider Craigavon area."

Ulster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie described it as "deeply worrying".

"A family home, with children upstairs in bed, was attacked in the hours of darkness," he said.

"We again are seeing the use of firearms on the streets of Craigavon, and we could well have been facing a fatality here this morning."