NSW Police probe connection between KFC knife incident and shooting

A pair were threatened with a knife and another man shot in two incidents this morning that police think could be linked.

A KFC carpark outside Canberra has become the focus of a police investigation as detectives probe whether there are any links between a shooting and a knife incident.

NSW Police launched a strike force on Thursday after a 39-year-old man went to Queanbeyan Hospital to seek medical treatment for a gunshot wound to his lower torso.

Police suspect the man’s injury could have links to an earlier incident in a KFC parking lot on Waniassa Road in Queanbeyan East involving two men aged 32 and 60 who said they were threatened by a man with a knife.

The KFC in Queanbeyan where the knife incident happened. Picture: Google Maps via NCA NewsWire

Detectives were told the two men were sitting in a Kia Cerato parked at the chicken restaurant around 6.15am on Thursday when an unknown man got into the car and threatened them.

The man then fled the scene with another man and a woman in a blue Ford Focus with the NSW licence plate CZ72NM.

The man who had been shot attended the local hospital about 45 minutes later.

Police have not said why they believe the shooting and the KFC threat are linked.

The wounded 39-year-old was transferred to Canberra Hospital where he was listed in a serious condition on Thursday afternoon.

“Detectives have since established Strike Force Fihelly to investigate the incidents and determine whether they are linked,” police said in a statement.

The detectives urged anyone with information to contact the Queanbeyan police station.