Former NRL star Matt Utai is in a “critical condition” after being shot multiple times outside his home in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n
New South Wales police confirmed Utai, 44, sustained a “gunshot to his lower leg and his shoulder, upper chest area” during a drive-by shooting in south-west Sydney suburb Greenacre. <\/p>\n
Superintendent Rodney Hart added a 44-year-old was in a “serious but stable condition” after undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n
“This was definitely targeted,” Supt Hart said. <\/p>\n
“It’s a brazen ambush. Whether the victim was the intended target or it was somebody that he knows or associates with or is related to will all form part of the investigation.”<\/p>\n
Police said shots were fired from a white SUV, which was later found burned out in nearby Wiley Park. <\/p>\n
The vehicle, which police are treating as linked to the incident, has been recovered for forensic testing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL star Matt Utai is in a “critical condition” after being shot multiple times outside his home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-485639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485639","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=485639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}