Image: Bar Beach
A man is on the run after a teenager was killed in a drive-by shooting during a brawl at a beach north of Sydney.
A group of men were fighting in the Bar Beach car park in Newcastle around 11:40 pm on Wednesday when a white SUV pulled up and an armed man jumped out and fired at the 18-year-old victim, police said.
NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the teenager, but he died at the scene.
20 minutes after the fatal shooting, emergency service received reports a car, believed to be the SUV involved in the shooting, was on fire on Croudace Road, Tingira Heights, around 13 kilometres south of the car park, as reported by The Sydney Morning Herald.
A major crime scene has been set up and specialist police from Sydney, including the homicide squad, sent there.
The victim has yet to be formally identified.
Another Drive-By Shooting Claims Life of 65 Year Old Woman
Just last week, another drive-by shooting claimed the life of a 65-year-old woman.
On April 14, emergency services were called to a home in Sydney’s south west, on Dickens Road, Ambarvale following reports a woman had been shot.
Officers attached to Campbelltown City Police Area Command had arrived to find a 65-year-old woman had suffered a gunshot wound to her leg after an unknown vehicle had fired several times at the home before leaving the scene.
Paramedics and police treated the woman, but she died at the scene.
A 34-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, who were also at the property at the time of the shooting, were uninjured.
According to Detective Superintendent Grant Healey, the family living at the address were known to police.
Superintendent Healey confirmed police believed the attack was targeted.
“We’re investigating all three of them,” he said of the people present at the home, and said the family had been living at the property for less than two months.
“Initially they were [cooperating with police], but at this point in time we’re trying to work with them to get some more information,” Superintendent Healey said at a press conference last week, as reported by ABC News.
Anyone with relevant information or dashcam vision of the Merewether incident should call police on 1800 333 000 or make a report online.
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