BY Bridget Orr | February 9 | 
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Arrest made in shooting outside Bishopbriggs Catholic primary
Police have arrested a man in connection with a shooting at a Catholic primary school in Bishopbriggs last September.
The shooting took place in the afternoon of September 24 just as pupils were coming home from St Helen’s Primary School.
Following reports of gunshots heard by residents, armed police were called to the gates of the school and other residents were told to stay in their homes. At the time of the shooting, residents described the school’s immediate area as ‘nice and usually very quiet.’
“I was in my house waiting for the kids to come home from school when I heard three distinct bangs or pops which didn’t sound like fireworks or anything I’d ever heard before,” one woman said.
“It’s shocking and very scary that whoever did this could have such little regard for anyone else, or any of the kids leaving the school just round the corner at the same time.”
The shooting outside St Helen’s Primary was treated as a botched assassination attempt amid ongoing gangland violence throughout the North-East of Glasgow.
It was reported that the target of the shooting, Ross Sherlock was a close associate of Kevin ‘The Gerbil’ Carroll who was shot dead in an Asda car-park in 2010.
A 55-year old man was due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court (above)yesterday.
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