The killers of Keane Mulready-Woods, the teenager whose severed arms and limbs were found Monday evening stacked in a sports bag in Moatview Drive in Darndale, Ireland, may have filmed the gut-wrenching murder and posted it online, police said.

According to police, the 17-year-old became a scapegoat of an ongoing scuffle between two criminal gangs in Dublin, which by far reportedly claimed three more lives. Mulready-Woods was recognized with the help of his DNA records. A severed head found in a burning car in nearby Drumcondra district Wednesday morning by Dublin Fire Brigade apparently also belonged to him.

Garda police confirmed in a statement Thursday they were investigating some images and videos circulating online, The Irish Times reported.

The images were still unverified but “they are distressing to Keane’s family,” Christy Mangan, chief superintendent of Garda police, said and urged people not to share the “disrespectful” content.

Furthermore, police believe Mulready-Woods’ fingers were cut off by the gang members prior to his murder to dodge identification through DNA from his nails.

The gang members had allegedly lured him into his death. Mulready-Woods had gone to meet them Sunday evening at Saint Dominic's Bridge in Drogheda. Police believe he was abducted and taken to a house in Drogheda where he was tortured, murdered, and his body was dismembered.

The bag containing his mutilated limbs and arms was driven around 30 miles and thrown away from a moving car, police said.

Detectives hold a 35-year-old “psychopathic” hitman accountable for Mulready-Woods’ murder. They alleged he had connections to slain senior gang member Richard Carberry.

A recent report indicates that Mulready-Woods’ head was due to be delivered to suspected gang boss Cornelius Price as a warning. It was, however, abandoned inside a burning car instead, The New York Post reported.

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