{"id":681911,"date":"2026-05-20T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681911\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:44:08","slug":"one-person-dead-and-four-in-hospital-after-alleged-shooting-in-sydneys-south-west-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681911\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead and four in hospital after alleged shooting in Sydney\u2019s south-west | New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">One man has died in hospital and four others have been left in serious condition after a shooting at a home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police set up a crime scene at a home in Canley Heights in south-west <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/sydney\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a> after the men self-presented to two nearby hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A 28-year-old and a 32-year-old arrived at Liverpool hospital at about 8.30pm on Tuesday with multiple wounds.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-name=\"standard link button Primary\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" class=\"dcr-svb9qg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">While the younger man was treated for a gunshot injury, he died a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 32-year-old was still in hospital on Wednesday morning with a neck injury and remained in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At about 8.40pm on Tuesday, two other men \u2013 a 23-year-old and a 22-year-old \u2013 presented to Fairfield hospital in serious conditions before being moved to other hospitals for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 23-year-old received care for a gunshot wound to the neck and the other was treated for a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The fifth man, a 19-year-old, arrived at Liverpool hospital about an hour later with injuries to his arm, and remained in a stable condition on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cInitial information indicates the men were all injured during a shooting at the home earlier in the night,\u201d NSW police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Officers were seen swarming around the hospitals\u2019 emergency wards in the late hours of the night as an investigation was launched into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man has died in hospital and four others have been left in serious condition after a shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-681911","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\/681911","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=681911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}