Boy, 16, man 22, charged after Bossley Park shooting
Chilling video has emerged showing a brazen daylight shooting in Sydney. A 16-year-old boy and a man have now been charged.
A 16-year-old boy and a man have been charged for allegedly peppering an elderly couple’s Western Sydney home with at least two dozen bullets in a brazen daylight shooting.
Police were first alerted to reports of shots fired at a Bossley Park property on Friday about 6.30pm, and arrived to find the house and Holden station wagon parked outside damaged.
Residents inside were not physically harmed.
It was the second time the property had been hit by bullets in under 48 hours.
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The shooters fled the scene in an Audi but crashed minutes later.
It clipped another car at the intersection of Mimosa Road and Prairie Vale Road and came to a halt on the footpath near a bus stop.
In the luxury sedan, officers allegedly found an AK-47 firearm.
Video of the terrifying incident emerged hours later on social media.
The clip, shared to SCN Worldstar, showed a car stop in the middle of Aberdeen St before the gunman in the back seat unloaded at least 24 shots into the house and Holden.
The driver uttered a phrase from the 1983 movie Scarface as he pulled up to the home.
“Say hello to my little friend,” he said.
Police launched a major manhunt to find the perpetrators.
Heavily-armed tactical officers from Tactical Operations Unit arrived at a property in nearby Fairfield West on Friday about 1.30pm.
They arrested a 22-year-old man who was later charged with firing a gun at a home and participate in a criminal group.
Inside the Woodville Road home they allegedly located a shortened calibre rifle, ammunition and a number of mobile phones.
He was refused bail to appear at Local Bail Division Court on Saturday.
About five hours later after his arrest about 6.30pm, police stopped a car on Camden Valley Way in Leppington.
They arrested a 16-year-old who was charged with fire firearm at dwelling, participate and contribute to criminal activity, and being a passenger in an allegedly stolen car.
He too was refused bail to appear at a children’s court on Saturday.
Overnight, police executed a search warrant at a Leppington home.
Ammunition and clothing were allegedly seized from the River Mint Ave property.
It is the second time the Bossley Park home was shot up in under 48 hours.
A caravan parked outside was hit by a bullet just before midnight on Wednesday before a white Audi sped from the scene, police say.
It was one of three shootings in Sydney’s southwest in the space of four hours.
The Bossley Park shootings are understood to be a case of mistaken identity.
Detective Superintendent Craig Middleton said the elderly couple have been left “very upset and traumatised” by the shootings.
“They’ve lived there the majority of their lives with their grandson, and this is obviously very shocking for them and their community,” he said.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
