{"id":430845,"date":"2026-01-22T22:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430845\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:01:13","slug":"specialist-police-teams-flown-in-to-hunt-for-man-after-three-shot-dead-at-lake-cargelligo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430845\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialist police teams flown in to hunt for man after three shot dead at Lake Cargelligo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Specialist police officers flown in by the Defence Force are searching for a gunman who killed three people in a remote New South Wales town.<\/p>\n

A man, 32, and a woman, 25, were found dead in a vehicle in Bokhara Street, Lake Cargelligo, 130 kilometres north of Griffith, when police responded to reports of shots about 4:20pm yesterday.<\/p>\n

Soon after, police were called to a second report of shots being fired on Walker Street, where officers found another male and female with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

The woman, 50, died and the man, 19, was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n

Police say they are searching for 37-year-old Julian Ingram, also known as Pierpoint.<\/p>\n

He is described as 165cm-170cm tall, of medium build, with short dark hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n

He was last seen driving a Ford Ranger utility with NSW registration DM-07-GZ and described as having council signage, a metal tray back, high-visibility markings on the side and an emergency-light bar on the roof.<\/p>\n

Last night, Western Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Andrew Holland, said all of those killed were locals.<\/p>\n

A large-scale search is underway, with police helicopters circling the town through the night and tactical officers and Defence Force personnel flown in.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police searched into the night for a gunman after three people were shot dead in Lake Cargelligo on Thursday. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Assistant Commissioner Holland told ABC Radio Riverina residents in the area should stay indoors.<\/p>\n

“It’s a large-scale search of these areas surrounding Lake Cargelligo,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have a direction where he was seen to leave [in], but obviously, overnight, we haven’t been able to locate him or the vehicle and the search has been spread out across small villages in the local area.<\/p>\n

“If [locals] see someone suspicious, obviously the first thing to do is call Triple Zero (000), make sure you are secure in your home, stay away from windows where possible.<\/p>\n

“There are concerns this offender may be armed.”<\/p>\n

All access points into Lake Cargelligo remain closed, including from Hillston, Condobolin, West Wyalong and Goolgowi.<\/p>\n

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All access points into Lake Cargelligo remain closed and people are being urged to stay indoors. (Supplied: NSW Live Traffic<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Assistant Commissioner Holland said emergency services crews were confronted by “horrendous” scenes when they arrived yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

“Any death in a small country town is confronting but, again, a scene where you have people shot by firearms is obviously going to make people very, very tense and very concerned,” he said.<\/p>\n

Acting Police Minister Paul Scully said it was important residents in the town and surrounding area followed police directions.<\/p>\n

“The events over the last 24 hours at Lake Cargelligo are incredibly distressing and tragic,” he said.<\/p>\n

“My thoughts are with the families and the community that have been affected”.<\/p>\n

Residents have been urged to bring forward any relevant mobile phone, dashcam or CCTV footage, photos, screenshots or other material that may help police with the search and investigation.<\/p>\n

‘Crying shame’<\/p>\n

Lachlan Shire Mayor John Metcalf said the town of fewer than 1,500 people was set on the banks of the “magnificent” Lake Cargelligo and the incident was a “crying shame”.<\/p>\n

“It’s a small country town, and it is about the last thing you would expect to happen in a town that size,” he said.<\/p>\n

Assistant Commissioner Holland said the scenes would have been “horrendous”.<\/p>\n

He said locals would be supported by police and “we’ll be caring for their welfare in the future”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specialist police officers flown in by the Defence Force are searching for a gunman who killed three people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[225574,225577,225576,43,44,225575,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-430845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cargelligo-shooting","tag-central-west-shooting","tag-gunman-on-loose","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-three-shot-dead","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430845","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=430845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}