Two Charged After Fatal Shooting at Lidcombe Apartment Building
Two men have been charged with murder after a fatal shooting occurred at just past midnight on Monday morning near Shale Street in Lidcombe's apartment complex outside Sydney Olympic Park. A group of heavyset individuals dressed entirely black opened fire inside the unit, killing one 38-year-old man who was rushed to hospital but died from multiple gunshot wounds while wounding another person during an attack police believe is gangland-linked and are describing as brazenly executed in western suburbs just after four am on Monday.
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1Two men have been charged with murder after an early morning shooting at Lidcombe resulted in one death and another injury.
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2Police describe the attack as gangland-linked, involving a group of heavyset men dressed in black opening fire on residents.
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3Emergency services responded to reports heard from Shale Street just before 4am Monday following gunfire inside apartment units.
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'Someone must have seen or heard something': Police appealing to residents who witnessed events.
— (Brisbanetimes.com.au)"A group of heavyset men dressed in black" opened fire and killed a man
— (Perthnow.com.au, Smh.com.au)Two 21 and 22-year-old men from Ermington were arrested for a Monday morning car crash in which police allegedly found a firearm; the driver was later also accused of wounding someone. Authorities charged both individuals with murder following an investigation that revealed strong links to organized crime, stemming after one man died by gunshot wounds at Lidcombe and another sustained non-life-threatening injuries during what appeared as two separate incidents on Monday afternoon
A man has been arrested in connection with a gangland-linked shooting on Shale Street that killed one person and wounded another early Monday morning at an apartment building near Sydney Olympic Park. Police are appealing for witnesses after identifying strong links between the attack, which involved men dressed in black firing from inside their unit, and organized crime groups operating locally.
Police are investigating an early Monday morning shooting near Sydney Olympic Park that resulted in one death and another non-life-threatening injury, following a similar incident at Chester Hill earlier this week. Emergency services responded to reports of gunfire around 4 am on Shale Street where the victim died from gunshot wounds while two others were treated for injuries sustained during the attack.