{"id":429583,"date":"2026-01-22T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429583\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:46:08","slug":"three-people-dead-and-gunman-on-the-run-after-shooting-in-nsw-town-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429583\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people dead and gunman on the run after shooting in NSW town | New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Three people have been fatally shot and a gunman is on the run after a shooting in a country town in central western NSW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">NSW police said on Thursday that a police operation was under way at Lake Cargelligo, 240km south-west of Dubbo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Emergency services were called to the area at about 4.40pm after reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The gunman remains on the run. Police resources have been brought in from surrounding areas in the western region to apprehend him.<\/p>\n<p><a data-name=\"placeholder\" href=\"https:\/\/interactive.guim.co.uk\/uploader\/embed\/2026\/01\/embed-7-zip\/giv-32554aZuYZWFtumrk\/\" class=\"dcr-1eupayo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Cargelligo<\/a>Lake Cargelligo<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police confirmed that two women and a man have died, and another man has been taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police have urged locals to remain indoors. Between 1,300 and 1,500 people live in Lake Cargelligo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe public is urged to avoid the area and for local residents to stay inside,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police have sent a geo-targeted text message to residents telling them to stay inside and avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Guardian Australia understands that police are not treating the incident as terror related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A staff member at the Commercial Hotel in the centre of town, who did not wish to be named, said there had been a lot of police activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI\u2019m just inside, trying to not be around,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A manager of a local motel said it was \u201ca little bit scary\u201d, and she believed more police were headed to the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Roy Butler, the NSW MP for Barwon which takes in Lake Cargelligo, posted on social media that he had learned the tragic news just moments after getting off a plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible situation, and it\u2019s still live, so we don\u2019t have much information. My thoughts are with the victims and their families,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been fatally shot and a gunman is on the run after a shooting in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-429583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429583","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=429583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}