Still no arrests in Dorchester slay

It's been over a month since the shooting dead of Aran Islander Ciaran O Conghaile in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester and there have been no arrests.

A spokesperson for the Boston Police Department told the Echo Tuesday that there are no new developments in the investigation into the murder of 36-year-old O Conghaile.

Homicide detectives are asking for help from the general public. Anyone with any information should call 1-800-494-TIPS.

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The view of investigators is that O Conghaile, from Mor village on Inis Meain, may have been simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The undocumented construction worker had reached his home on Nahant Avenue when he was shot during what is believed to have been a botched robbery. He was pronounced dead at the scene. O Conghaile had been returning home after attending that weekend's Irish Heritage Festival.

Investigators have focused on a separate non-fatal robbery of a woman in Dorchester that evening and believe the same three-man gang was responsible for shooting O Conghaile.

 

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