{"id":102218,"date":"2025-08-28T13:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102218\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:11:16","slug":"young-man-stabbed-to-death-at-sydney-bus-terminal-police-investigating-if-gang-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102218\/","title":{"rendered":"Young man stabbed to death at Sydney bus terminal, police investigating if gang-related"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police<\/a> are investigating whether the stabbing death of a young man in western Sydney<\/a> was gang-related.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to a bus interchange on North Parade at Mount Druitt about 10pm yesterday.<\/p>\n

Police found two 19-year-old men with stab wounds.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Police are investigating the stabbing death of a 19-year-old man in western Sydney on August 27, 2025. (Nine)<\/p>\n

Zach McCrae was treated by paramedics but died shortly after.<\/p>\n

Vimlesh Chand had been stabbed in his arm and chest. He was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

NSW Police Superintendent Darrin Batchelor said the attack was violent.<\/p>\n

“\ufeffI describe the attack as callous, vicious and without regard to the victims or innocent bystanders,” he said this morning.<\/p>\n

“It was quite a violent and frenzied attack on those individuals.”<\/p>\n

McCrae suffered stab wounds to his chest and was treated by paramedics at the scene, but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n

Batchelor said Chand was “extremely lucky” to survive.<\/p>\n

“\ufeffHe sustained a stab wound through his arm, went through the entirety of his arm and then penetrated his chest,” he said.<\/p>\n

Both McCrae and Chand were known to police, Batchelor said. He would not confirm whether the attack was targeted or planned.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"NSWSuperintendent Darrin Batchelor described the violent attack as ‘callous’ and ‘vicious’. (Nine)<\/p>\n

A third person was also assaulted in the incident, but he isn’t believed to be an associate of the victims and was simply in the vicinity of the crime.\ufeff<\/p>\n

A crime scene has been established and officers, including the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad, are investigating the death.<\/p>\n

Police paused train services in the area to search the tracks for evidence.\ufeff<\/p>\n

It is believed four individuals were involved in the attack, two of whom were armed with kitchen knives.<\/p>\n

Batchelor confirmed the four were dressed in black and wearing balaclavas.\ufeff<\/p>\n

There are reports the crime could be gang-related, with the victims reportedly asked if they were “67”, an alleged gang in western Sydney.<\/p>\n

Police are exploring that line of inquiry, but efforts so far are hindered by the second victim being under sedation in hospital.<\/p>\n

A stolen bumbag has made robbery another potential motive\ufeff.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.\ufeff<\/p>\n

A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating whether the stabbing death of a young man in western Sydney was gang-related. Emergency services…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-102218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}