Man shot dead inside house garage at Maryland
A man has been shot dead near Newcastle this afternoon. Emergency services found the man dead inside an attached garage of a house. The police homicide squad is now investigating.
Homicide detectives are hunting a shooter after a man was found dead inside a house garage this afternoon.
The man, whose age has yet been released, was found dead at the home on Beauford Ave, Maryland, west of Newcastle, just after 4pm.
It is understood a neighbour raised the alarm with police after hearing gunfire.
A NSW Police spokesman said emergency services were called to the street at 4pm and found his body.
Paramedics were on the scene and police had the street blocked off as investigations began into the killing.
The police spokesman said: “A man was found with fatal injuries inside an attached garage. His age is not available at this stage.
“A crime scene has been established, and officers from Newcastle City Police District, with assistance from State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad, have commenced inquiries.”
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said the victim had lived in the house for about six months and looked like he was aged in his 30s or 40s.
“He had a tattoo on his face that went down on to his neck,” the man said.
Another neighbour, who asked not to be named said, said they heard a “big boom”.
“We didn’t see it but we heard a big boom and ran out on to the street,” the woman said.
“I thought it was a car hitting a telephone pole, that’s how much I know about guns.
“It’s such a quiet family-oriented street, but they certainly don’t fit in with that.”
Mark Walker, 45, who has lived in the street for 13 years, said he was working in the shed when he saw a woman, believed to be the dead man’s sister, at the front of his house screaming.
“We were in the shed and thought something had fallen over because of the bang — it was that loud,” he said.
“The next thing we saw a lady probably in her 20s running down the street yelling ‘my brother, my brother, my brother’.”
Ashley Butler, 28, who has only lived on the street for three months, said she arrived home with her partner Shaun Johnson to find police already on the scene.
“We arrived 10 minutes after everything had happened and the cops were already here,” she said.
“The sister showed up and it was sort of a kerfuffle of people hugging, crying and freaking out.
“The family were hugging, then got in a car and left.”
Investigations are continuing. No arrests have yet been made.
The spokesman said police are not treating the death as a suicide.
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