Kurri Kurri Drive-By Shooting Thought to Be Bikie Gang Related

BY JESSICA ROUSE

Police have charged a man with firearm offenses for an alleged drive-by shooting in Kurri Kurri earlier this year.

Projectiles were fired into a vehicle and a dwelling in Greta Street at about 1:50am on October 15 - a mother and three children were reportedly asleep in the home at the time. 

Police from the Central Hunter Local Area Command found a partially burnt out Mitsubishi Magna not far from the incident on the same night.

Following extensive inquiries police arrested a 21-year-old man at Tuggerah yesterday and charged him over the incident.

He was charged with fire firearm at dwelling and fire firearm at other than dwelling disregarding safety.

Police believe the incident may have been bikie gang related (OMCG). The man is believed to be a nominee for the Finks.

The 21-year-old will appear at Wyong Local Court today.


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Drive-By Shooting At Kurri Kurri

Drive-By Shooting At Kurri Kurri

BY IAN CROUCH

Projectiles have been fired into a home at Kurri Kurri where a mother and her three children were sleeping.

The woman was woken by a motorbike travelling up and down the street outside her Greta Street home at about 1.40am on Sunday and then heard a loud noise, finding holes in the front window, lounge room wall and kitchen window at the house.

Police stopped a black car in the street a short time later and arrested three people.

The vehicle and its three occupants were searched, with a quantity of ammunition located inside.

Police searched a 22-year-old man and allegedly located a firearm.

An 18-year-old female and the two 22-year-old males were arrested and conveyed to Maitland Police Station.

However, Inspector Glenn Blaine says the three people arrested were not involved in the alleged shooting incident.

"The people who were arrested outside the house were arrested for some firearm offences but were probably not the ones who were involved in the actual incident itself," he said.

Officers from Central Hunter Local Area Command established a crime scene at the home and located a motor vehicle with several holes in the driver’s door.

Police say the they are yet to confirm if the holes were from shots fired from a gun and they're appealing for information as investigations continue.