Armed officers were called to the scene of the shooting, which happened as pupils were leaving the nearby St Helens Primary School.
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In 2010 Carroll was shot dead in an Asda vehicle park in the Robroyston area of Glasgow, less than a mile from yesterday’s incident.
His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, Sky News reports.
She added: “Lots of people concerned and they did this all we after we had picked up our children”.
“It’s a quiet area and the school is so close so it is worrying.”Neighbours reported hearing three bangs at around 3pm, as children were filing out of the nearby schools”.
Officers rushed to St Helens Primary at Wester Cleddens Road in Bishopbriggs at around 3pm.
It is understood a man received hospital treatment yesterday, but it was unclear whether it was Sherlock.
In the aftermath of the incident, there was a heavy police presence in the area, with officers seen in the nearby street of Vale Walk, next to a auto that appeared to have been burnt out and abandoned.
POLICE are hunting a gunman after a man was shot in an attack thought to be linked to former associates of murdered gangland figure Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll.
She wrote: “It happened outside St Helen’s school as we were heading back to our cars”.
One said: “I didn’t know what the sound was, then the next thing the helicopter was over the house”.
‘I watched him jump over a hedge or fence.
“I came outside but whoever was responsible must have left by then”. “She started crying out ‘where’s my sister, where’s my sister”. It’s like America’.
“It’s frightening that some nutter could be running around with a gun”.
‘This is a nice area and it is usually very quiet.
A woman resident who declined to be named, told the Herald: “I heard three shots quite clearly – and so did my daughter”.
According to Police Scotland, the attacker shot a 33-year-old man on Dornoch Place, Bishopbriggs, at 15:10 on Thursday.
“Officers are working to establish the circumstances of the incident and I am particularly keen to appeal to anyone who may have seen the incident or who had been in the area around that time to contact the police on 101 with any information”.
Police said a major incident room had been set up at Kirkintilloch Police Office and extra patrols were being made to reassure the public.
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Armed response teams were sent to the incident in Dornoch Place, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, at about 3.10pm today.
