Man remains critical after shooting

He's being treated in the Royal Victoria Hospital after being shot in the head in Lurgan yesterday

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Published 14th Feb 2017
Last updated 14th Feb 2017

The victim's house in the Carrigart Crescent area of the County Armagh town was sprayed with bullets in the early hours of Monday morning.

Police have said this attack was highly orchestrated and pre-planned.

From visiting the scene yesterday its easy to see why they have come to that conclusion.

They will likely have scouted this area in the days before and made sure their victim was at home when they planned to strike. Gunmen don't just drive up to a house on a whim and fire off 20 rounds of ammunition.

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In terms of their getaway, they used roads on the outskirts of Lurgan, potentially avoiding police responding to 999 calls.

They dumped their car on the New Line Road. If they had continued in that direction they could have been on the A1 dual carriageway at Banbridge within 10-15 minutes.

And given the burnt out Skoda was stolen in Dublin it might not be such a big leap to say they could have been back across border within an hour of this shooting.