Alleged gunman arrested after man, 20, shot dead and two others injured in Wyong siege
A gunman went on a rampage on the Central Coast on Tuesday night allegedly shooting a 20-year-old Watanobbi man dead and wounding a 45-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man before being arrested after an hour-long siege.
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A gunman went on a rampage on the Central Coast on Tuesday night shooting one man dead and wounding two others before being arrested.
The man, armed with a rifle, barricaded himself inside a house at Wyong and indiscriminately fired bullets into the street.
Police received multiple triple-0 calls just after 6pm to report a gunman with a longarm rifle shooting from inside the home on Cutler Dr.
Witnesses described a large amount of shots being fired for almost an hour.
Initial reports were that five people had been shot, but police later revised that figure.
A woman, 45, was seen on the street bleeding from her back while a 20-year-old Watanobbi man, who is believed to be known to the alleged gunman, was killed inside the home.
Another 50-year-old man was also shot and suffered minor injuries.
A heroic police officer was injured while dragging people to safety from the hail of bullets with fellow officers helping him limp to a car.
The area, from the Pacific Highway through to Casey Dr was blocked off by police.
The shooter was taken into police custody just before 7.30pm after heavily armed tactical police arrived on street.
Residents on the street watched on as a police car and public transport bus reversed down the street to get away from the home with four shots heard by neighbours.
The injured woman was taken away by paramedics with blood stains on her top.
Meanwhile, a police officer could be seen resting in a back seat of a car, holding a morphine dispenser after limping to the car with the support of other officers.
“As far as I know, they got two on the ground down there, other than that all we hear is shots,” one neighbour said.
A woman self-isolating at her home with her daughter in Maple Circle, next to Cutler Dr was home during the shooting, which she said lasted for about an hour.
“All our neighbours ran out into the street when we heard the bangs and then my daughter got a call from her boyfriend saying not to go out because there’s an active shooter,” the woman, who asked to be anonymous, said.
“It was at the end of our street I think, near Cutler Drive. The police had us all locked in from the school down to the Pacific Highway,” she said.
“It was so noisy, I thought at first it was detonators on the train tracks because it was so loud,” she said.
“And then it kept going and going and I thought ‘that’s not normal for trains’.
“It sounded like a pretty bad situation because the shots were constant.”
