Second drive-by as police seek gran’s cowardly killers
Rachel Jackson and Alex Mitchell |
Police are not ruling out a link between the shooting death of a grandmother and a separate incident where bullets rained on another suburban home.
Sydney residents woke to reports of a drive-by shooting for the second time in as many days on Wednesday after bullets peppered a property in Guildford West, in the city’s west, about 2am.
It followed 65-year-old Kim Duncan being gunned down in her family’s Ambarvale home in Sydney’s southwest outskirts on Monday night. The killer remains on the loose.
Police are seeking a man spotted fleeing the Guildford West property after Wednesday’s incident.
There were “no clear links” between the two shootings, Superintendent Traci Watt said .
“But we do not rule anything out and we will liaise with the investigators for that matter as well,” she said.
“It’s absolutely deplorable, it’s unacceptable, the risk they are doing to our community members is just not acceptable.”
Supt Watt said no one was home at the time of Wednesday’s shooting and it was not a targeted attack.
Police are investigating whether a burnt-out car found in nearby Villawood soon after is linked to the Guildford incident.
Fire crews were called to the blaze about 2.50am but the vehicle was destroyed.
Emergency services were called to a Dickens Road property about 11pm on Monday to treat Ms Duncan before she died at the scene.
Police confirmed two men, aged 32 and 34, were arrested over the investigation on Wednesday morning during a vehicle stop in Ambarvale.
They said the duo was being questioned and had not been charged.
Three people got out of a dark-coloured sedan, but it was not clear how many opened fire at the Dickens Road house.
The attack was targeted but it was unclear if Ms Duncan, who was inside the house, was the intended victim, police said.
A 21-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man inside the home were not injured.
The home’s occupants, who authorities believed had lived there for six to eight weeks, were known to police.
Police were unable to interview some distraught family members and said they would give them more time to process the death.
“It’s tragic … your mother and the grandmother to your children has been shot by cowards that stood out the front of the house,” Detective Superintendent Grant Healey said.
Nearby resident Louise Hoser said she heard gunshots soon after 10.30pm.
Bullet holes could be seen near stairs leading to the front of the home and on the front wall of the house.
Evidence markers dotted the driveway at the home as officers and the homicide squad began their probe.
AAP
