Sydney’s spate of gun violence has continued with three shootings in four hours on Wednesday night, as shots were fired into homes and a business before the discovery of two torched cars.
Police are investigating whether the incidents in Sydney’s south-west are linked to one another amid ongoing conflict between splintering organised crime networks.
The first shooting took place about 11.15pm on Margaret Street, Fairfield, with multiple shots fired into a home before a dark SUV left the scene.
“We heard this barrage of gunshots, would have been about six or eight gunshots in a row, and there was a slight pause, and then there was another barrage,” one Fairfield resident, who declined to be named, told Nine’s Today program.
“We thought, you know, ‘what’s going on here, this is just not our neighbourhood’.”
A man and a woman aged in their 20s were inside the home but escaped injury.
Fairfield residents heard “a barrage of shots” as the first of three overnight shootings unfolded.Credit: Nine News
Bullet casings were still visible at the scene on Wednesday morning.
Another Fairfield resident said he initially thought the gunshots were the sound of someone knocking on a door too loudly.
