Man arrested as kids targeted in Condell Park shooting
Police are investigating whether social media taunts were behind a shooting after a car with a child, three teenagers and an adult inside was riddled with bullets in Sydney’s southwest.
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Police are investigating whether social media taunts were behind a shooting after a car with a child, three teenagers and an adult inside was riddled with bullets in Sydney’s southwest.
Armed police from the Public Order and Riot Squad arrested a 20-year-old man on Monday morning outside a unit block on Clack Road, Chester Hill.
Police believe the occupants of the white Toyota Yaris were targeted by the gunman who had been driving a silver Toyota Orion.
Shortly after the shooting, the Yaris was involved in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Townsend and Manahan Streets in Condell Park.
It is alleged the 20-year-old was leaving the unit block in a silver Toyota Orion which has been seized for forensic testing as officers with the Tactical Operations Unit carried out a search warrant on a unit.
Five people — including two 17-year-olds, a 16-year-old, a 12-year-old and a 37-year-old — were inside the car when shots were fired but all escaped uninjured.
The 20-year-old has been taken to Bankstown Police Station where he is expected to be charged.
Witnesses or anyone with dashcam or CCTV of the incident are asked to come forward.
MAN ARRESTED OVER CONDELL PARK SHOOTING
A person has been arrested after a car was riddled with bullets while a child, three teenagers and an adult were inside in Sydney’s southwest.
The 20-year-old man was taken into custody on Monday morning, almost 12 hours after shots were fired into the white Toyota Yaris near the intersection of Townsend St and Manahan St in Condell Park.
Police were told a man opened fire on the Yaris shortly before it crashed about 9pm. It is believed the shooting was a targeted attack.
About 8am on Monday heavily armed police from the Public Order and Riot Squad arrested a man as he tried to leave a unit block on Clack Rd at Chester Hill in a silver Toyota Orion believed to have been used in the shooting.
The car was seized and a search warrant carried out on a unit at the block.
Five people including two 17-year-olds, a 16-year-old, a 12-year-old and a 37-year-old were inside the car when shots were fire, but all escaped uninjured.
Witnesses or anyone with dashcam or CCTV of the incident are asked to come forward.
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