 Mobile phone footage was released showing a masked gunman opening fire with a handgun.Saoradh subsequently released a statement attributing the shooting to "a republican volunteer attempted to defend people from the PSNI/RUC", after an "incursion" by "heavily armed crown forces", and claiming that McKee was "killed accidentally".Saoradh held an Easter Rising commemoration parade in front of the GPO, the main site of the Rising in 1916, in Dublin on Easter Saturday, 21 April, less than three days after the death of McKee.