Western Sydney drug war: Terrified neighbours heard ‘boom...pause...boom’

UPDATE: The neighbours of a Glenwood house peppered with bullets last night say they are terrified the city’s drug wars have infiltrated their street.

Bullet holes in the lounge room window of a home which was targeted in a drive-by shooting. Picture Stephen Cooper

TERRIFIED neighbours who heard a “boom, pause, boom” as a gunman blasted two holes through the front of a Western Sydney home last night, now fear the city’s deadly drugs war is in their street.

Three men and a child were in the home in Glenwood when the shots were fired at 9.10pm. Miraculously none of them were hit.

A house in Glenwood was the target of a drive-by shooting overnight. Picture: Bill Hearne

Witnesses told police a black car sped from the scene.

“I heard a boom, pause, boom and I turned to my wife and said ‘that’s a gun’,” one neighbour, who did not wish to be named for fear of reprisal, said.

“She was looking at house prices last night, she wants to move out.

“She’s terrified they’ll come back, she won’t let us sit in the front room.”

Quakers Hill detectives were canvassing the neighbourhood this morning for information on the “targeted” attack.

Ten Sydney suburbs account for almost 30 per cent of the city’s gun violence.

One neighbour said police had been to the home a number of times and a brick was recently lobbed through the window during what they fear is a dispute over drugs.

Police are trying to establish a formal motive for the attack, given neighbours describe the man living at the home as a “hard working man”.

“He’s a great bloke who has his own business and works bloody hard,” the neighbour said.

Police collect evidence following the suspected drive-by shooting at Glenwood. Picture: Bill Hearne

Neighbours said a black car sped from the scene. Picture: Bill Hearne

Gunshots shattered through the front window and into the television while three men and a child were inside the home. No one was injured in the attack.

A black car was seen leaving the scene immediately after the shooting.

The shooting has been described as “targeted” by police and officers from Quakers Hill established a crime scene around the property.

Police investigations are ongoing.

Nearly two dozen people have died and more than 100 others have been injured in shootings across Sydney since the beginning of 2012.

Ten suburbs account for almost 30 per cent of the city’s gun violence.

1. Auburn
2. Greenacre
3. Guildford
4. Merrylands
5. Bankstown
6. Punchbowl
7. Liverpool
8. Busby
9. Granville
10. Greenfield Park