Audi sedan used in drive-by shooting at St Helens Park

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An investigation is under way following a drive-by shooting near Campbelltown last night.

Fortunately, nobody inside the home was hurt in the incident.

About 7.15pm today (Wednesday 1 May 2024), emergency services were called to Briggs Place, St Helens Park, following reports of shots fired into a house.

On arrival, police attached to Campbelltown Police Area Command found a house and car had been damaged.

Police have been told a dark-coloured Audi sedan was seen leaving the location following the shooting.

Three people were inside the home at the time, but there are no reports of injuries.

Police have established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the incident.

As inquiries continue, anyone with information or dashcam footage is urged to call police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Arson Unit detectives have charged four men over an allegedly deliberately lit house fire last month in South West Sydney which left two people injured.

Police say emergency services were called to King Street in Fairfield West following reports of a house fire. NSW Fire & Rescue attended and extinguished the blaze, which destroyed the property.

The occupants of the home – a 28-year-old man and 33-year-old woman – were awoken by the blaze and treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics for second and third degree burns to their hands and lower bodies, believed to have been sustained as they fled the burning house.

The pair were taken to hospital in serious conditions and have both since been released.

Officers attached to Fairfield City Police Area Command established a crime scene before the matter was referred to State Crime Command’s Financial Crimes Squad Arson Unit under Strike Force Booerie.

Initial inquiries revealed the fire was deliberately lit; however, as the occupants of the home had only moved into the house less than a year ago, it is believed they were targeted in a case of mistaken identity.

Further investigations led detectives to believe the fire was linked to another allegedly deliberately lit fire at a barber shop on The Horsley Drive in Wetherill Park three days earlier.

Four men, two aged 25, a 21 year old and a 23 year old, have been arrested and charged.

Police will allege in court the fires were deliberately lit as a retaliation to a shooting incident in Fairfield West on March 17.

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