Pair quizzed over shopkeeper death
Friday November 27 2009
Detectives are quizzing two teenagers over the killing of a shopkeeper stabbed in a robbery.
John Deasy was knifed as he went to the aid of a female assistant at his corner shop in Arklow, Co Wicklow, on Wednesday night.
Gardai in Arklow arrested two 19-year-old men in connection with the incident.
One is being detained in Arklow Garda Station and the other in Wicklow Garda Station under the provisions of section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1994.
They can be held for 24 hours.
The shopowner, a father of two in his mid 40s, was in his living quarters above the store on Coolgreany Road when he heard a commotion and went down.
He was stabbed once in the chest as he confronted the raider, who fled with a sum of money.
Attempts to revive Mr Deasy by ambulance personnel and a local doctor failed and he was pronounced dead at scene.
