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  Shootings since the State election

  Posted: Friday, 3 February 2012 | By: John Robertson

  1. February 1 – Police report at least one shot was fired at Lurnea Public School, between January 30 and February 1.
  2. January 29 – Police called to Denman Ave, Wiley Park and established crime scene after casings found
  3. January 26 – Shots fired into a tanning salon on the Princes Highway in Rockdale
  4. January 26 – 24-year-old man shot twice in the leg at Bolton Street, Guildford
  5. January 26 – Man in Auburn Hospital with a gunshot wound in back, refuses to make statement to police
  6. January 17 – Four shots fired into house on Coleridge Road, Wetherill Park.
  7. January 15 – Several cartridges found on the street after shots fired on Pelman Avenue, Greenacre.
  8. January 13 – Three bullet holes found in front windows of a house on Alan Street, Yagoona.
  9. January 12 – Bullet casings found in Chalmers Street, Lakemba after shots fired.
  10. January 12 – Shots fired at a house on Larra Street, Yennora, while a 40-year-old woman and her two daughters, aged 16 and 9, were inside.
  11. January 12 – Shots fired at a house on Weigand Avenue, Bankstown at 12.30am, coming within centimetres of a child's cot. A mother and her four children aged two months to 10-years-old, escaped injury.
  12. January 11 - A blue Toyota and a white sedan were involved in a gun battle on Mimosa Road, Greenfield Park about 2.05am.
  13. January 9 - Shooting at Marion St, Auburn
  14. January 9 – Shooting 10 minutes later in at a house in Sydney's south at Arncliffe, with 15 people inside.
  15. January 6 - A man suffered two gunshot wounds at the intersection of Larra Street and The Promenade, Yennora.
  16. January 4 - Lone Wolf bikie, Neal Todorovski, 37, was shot dead outside a Sans Souci apartment block.
  17. January 2 - Shots fired at an empty car parked outside a house on Spurway Street, Ermington.
  18. January 1 - Matthew Hedges, a 25-year-old father of four, was shot dead in the chest while two of his children slept beside him at a Chester Hill home
  19. December 5 - A father and his teenage son escaped injury after a shot was fired into a house in Mount Pritchard
  20. November 26 - Shots fired on Charles Street, Petersham.
  21. November 25 - Shots fired at house on Kingarth Street, Busby.
  22. November 24 - Shots fired at house on Nash Street, South Penrith.
  23. November 24 - Shots fired at business on Cleveland and Walker Streets, Redfern.
  24. November 10 - Shots fired at house on Nineveh Crescent, Greenfield Park.
  25. November 6 - Shots fired at house on Stevens Street, Ermington – Police say Bikie related
  26. November 5 - Shots fired at a home in Merrylands
  27. November 3 - At least four bullets struck the bedroom where a woman was sleeping about 12.15am at a townhouse at Northmead.
  28. October 30 - Shortly after midnight two houses were hit by bullets at Granville. Both were occupied at the time but the residents escaped uninjured.
  29. October 30 - Only minutes later another house on a nearby street (Granville) was also hit, with one woman inside the house requiring medical treatment for shock.
  30. October 30 - An unoccupied house at Canley Heights was struck just before 1.00am.
  31. October 29 - Just before 10.00pm, three shots fired into a house at Holroyd. Five people including a child were home at the time but no-one was injured.
  32. October 27 - Drive by shooting at an Oporto restaurant in Merrylands
  33. October 21 - Man dies after he was shot in the head inside a house in French Street, Maroubra.
  34. October 18 - Shots fired at a house on Walker Street, Turrella.
  35. October 3 - Man charged after allegedly shooting at another man on Pickwick Way, Ambarvale.
  36. September 30 - Man charged after an alleged drive-by shooting on Victoria Street, Botany.
  37. September 26 - Teenager shot by police in his home in Holmes Street, Colyton, following reported break-in.
  38. September 26 - Man charged with murder following shooting death of man at Bonnyrigg the day before.
  39. September 6 - Shots fired at a house in Revesby in south-west Sydney.
  40. September 6 - Shots fired at a unit in Eden Street, Arncliffe.
  41. September 5 - Man found in Bursill Street, Guildford, with a shotgun wound to his upper thigh.
  42. August 30 - Up to a dozen shots fired between two cars in Greenacre.
  43. August 25 - Bullet holes found in a car on Lackey Street, Merrylands.
  44. August 24 - Bullets hit a house on Francis Street, Fairfield.
  45. August 22 - Pizza shop hit on Merrylands Road, Merrylands.
  46. August 22 - Two men shot in Barcom Street, Merrylands, in domestic dispute.
  47. August 23 – Bullets hit a house on Lachlan Street, Bossley Park.
  48. August 21 – Bullets hit a house on Eddy Street, Merrylands West.
  49. August 20 – Bullets hit a hairdressing salon on Harris Street, Fairfield.
  50. August 19 – Bullets hit a house on Mallacoota Street, Wakeley, near Fairfield.
  51. June 30th - Shots fired at a house in Merrylands
  52. June 30th - Shots fired at John Ibrahim's Dover Heights home
  53. June (date unspecified - Two other shootings took place at John Ibrahim's Dover Heights home.)
  54. June 20 - Gunmen opened fire on a cash van near Sydney airport.
  55. May 9th - 8:20pm Drive by shooting, Seven shots fired at the Ibrahim family home (John Ibrahim's parents) Merrylands
  56. May 9th - 4am Nine bullets fired into a house on Eddy St Merryland.
  57. April 5 - Six shots fired at a house on Hargreave rd, near Auburn Hospital. Five adults and two children in the home where uninjured.
  58. March 31 – Man shot in the chest, neck and head at his front door at Siena Close, Prestons
  59. March 28 – Fatal shooting at Tattoo Parlour owned by Bandidos member in West Ryde
  60. March 27 - a 19 year old shot while opening the front door in Western Sydney

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