{"id":678880,"date":"2026-05-18T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:50:11","slug":"sydney-dv-woman-two-children-killed-in-particularly-violent-alleged-dv-attack-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678880\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney DV: Woman, two children killed in &#8216;particularly violent&#8217; alleged DV attack in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man arrested after a woman and two children were found dead in an alleged domestic violence attack at a Sydney home called Triple Zero himself, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services called to a &#8220;particularly violent scene&#8221; on Raymond Ave in Campbelltown just before 8pm today found a woman believed to be in her mid-40s and two children under 10 inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Superintendent Michael Moroney wouldn&#8217;t confirm reports the man was the woman&#8217;s husband and father to the children but said all four knew each other.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/4ad8892b-64a9-4e14-a52f-6887f17eaa82.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Emergency services were called to a home in Campbelltown about 7.50pm today. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whilst I can&#8217;t give you specific information in regards to how they passed, what I can tell you is all three persons sustained significant injuries, and it was a particularly violent crime scene,&#8221; he said late tonight.<\/p>\n<p>A 48-year-old man was arrested at the scene and taken to Campbelltown police station but had not been formally interviewed or charged.<\/p>\n<p>Moroney wouldn&#8217;t go into details about any weapons being seized, saying only &#8220;a number of items&#8221; were found inside but no guns.<\/p>\n<p>He said the bodies &#8220;were located in various parts of the premises&#8221; and it was believed the 48-year-old man called emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t listened to the Triple Zero call,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Broadly, quite broadly, the information was, an incident happened at that location and he was requesting police to that scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7a0bda46-ca55-4edd-91fc-15e2f1ad06b2.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Acting Superintendent Michael Moroney addresses the media after a woman and two children were found dead at a home in Bankstown. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>Moroney said the man had no history with police and there were no offenders believed to be outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>There was no indication of mental health issues but that would form part of the police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A large police presence remained into the night on the street, where police had established a crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>The home was cordoned off with police tape and multiple police vehicles with flashing lights were parked up and down the street.<\/p>\n<p>Police could be seen in the front yard of the home.<\/p>\n<p>Campbelltown detectives are investigating with the help \ufeffState Crime Command&#8217;s homicide squad.<\/p>\n<p>Police called on anyone with information to come forward.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The gruesome discovery came hours after police announced hundreds of people had been arrested in a statewide operation targeting repeat domestic violence offenders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This today appears to be not something that we had on our radar in terms of being known to police, but I can reassure the public that domestic violence is a number one priority for the NSW Police, and we will continue to prioritise DV offenders,&#8221; Moroney said.<\/p>\n<p>Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man arrested after a woman and two children were found dead in an alleged domestic violence attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-678880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678880","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=678880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}