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| Woman killed in late-night drive-by shooting in Sydney suburb | Woman killed in late-night drive-by shooting in Sydney suburb |
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| Police searching for perpetrators after multiple shots fired at home in Ambarvale, on the city south-west outskirts | |
| A drive-by shooting has killed a woman in her 60s and left a suburban Sydney home peppered with bullet holes. | A drive-by shooting has killed a woman in her 60s and left a suburban Sydney home peppered with bullet holes. |
| Those responsible remained on the run on Tuesday following the overnight attack in Ambarvale on Sydney’s south-west outskirts. | Those responsible remained on the run on Tuesday following the overnight attack in Ambarvale on Sydney’s south-west outskirts. |
| Three people got out of a dark-coloured sedan and fired shots at the house on Dickens Road on Monday night, when the 65-year-old woman was hit, police alleged. | |
| Emergency services were called to the property about 11pm and treated the woman, but she died at the scene. | Emergency services were called to the property about 11pm and treated the woman, but she died at the scene. |
| Two other people in the home were not injured – a 21-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man. | Two other people in the home were not injured – a 21-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man. |
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| New South Wales police said the attack was targeted, but it was not known if the 65-year-old woman was the intended victim. | |
| The occupants of the house, who authorities believe had lived there for six to eight weeks, were known to police, Det Supt Grant Healey said on Tuesday. | The occupants of the house, who authorities believe had lived there for six to eight weeks, were known to police, Det Supt Grant Healey said on Tuesday. |
| Investigators had been unable to interview some distraught family members, who would be given more time to process the woman’s death. | |
| “It’s abhorrent. Somebody coming up to a house and putting shots off is totally reckless and the consequences are catastrophic,” Healey told reporters. | |
| “Some members of the family are speaking to us and helping us out, but it’s tragic ... Your mother and the grandmother to your children has been shot by cowards that stood out the front of the house.” | |
| Nearby resident Louise Hosar said she heard gunshots after 10.30pm. | Nearby resident Louise Hosar said she heard gunshots after 10.30pm. |
| “Within 20 minutes I went to bed and my bedroom just lit up with the police lights ... They didn’t have the sirens going, but there was a lot of police presence and ambulances up there,” she said. | |
| “I woke my house up to alert them that something was happening ... It was very distressing to hear the family and shocking to find out she was an elderly lady.” | |
| Local officers and the homicide squad were investigating, with a number of police vehicles outside the property as authorities began their inquiry. | |
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| Officers inspected bullet holes on the stairs leading to the property’s front door and on the front wall of the house. | Officers inspected bullet holes on the stairs leading to the property’s front door and on the front wall of the house. |
| At least three bullet holes could be seen on the house, while about 10 yellow evidence markers were spotted at the taped-off area outside the home. | At least three bullet holes could be seen on the house, while about 10 yellow evidence markers were spotted at the taped-off area outside the home. |
| Investigators also crawled under a car parked in the property’s driveway to look underneath. | |
| Police said members of the public, along with the two uninjured occupants in the house, would be key to their investigation. They asked witnesses to contact Crimestoppers. | |
| Hosar, who has lived in the area for 18 years but did not know the dead woman, said the violence was “part of living on Dickens Road”. | Hosar, who has lived in the area for 18 years but did not know the dead woman, said the violence was “part of living on Dickens Road”. |
| “Every few weeks there’s a lot of police presence,” she said. | “Every few weeks there’s a lot of police presence,” she said. |
| “Dickens Road always gets the negative [attention] but we do have some really nice people that live on Dickens Road and in [the] Campbelltown [area] in general.” |