{"id":875548,"date":"2026-08-31T23:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:34:13","slug":"man-shot-dead-during-home-invasion-at-glen-alpine-south-west-of-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875548\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead during home invasion at Glen Alpine, south-west of Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man believed to be in his 20s has been shot dead during a &#8220;targeted&#8221; home invasion in Sydney&#8217;s south-west, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to the Glen Alpine home about 3:40am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Campbelltown City Police Area Command Acting Superintendent Gretchen Atkins said the man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We believe at this point in time it is a targeted attack,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;That&#8217;s all the information we have been able to gather at this point in time, it is really early stages of the investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police officer stands in the doorway of a house that has a car parked out the front of it.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2ffb76fe0239d8656e3f68b2dbbff535.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Emergency services were called at about 3:40am on Tuesday. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said they were told the unknown offenders left the scene shortly before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A crime scene has been established and an investigation is underway with assistance from the State Crime Command&#8217;s Homicide Squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man believed to be in his 20s has been shot dead during a &#8220;targeted&#8221; home invasion in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,48,77330,19445,445391,445390,44,2733,4277,110922,182874],"class_list":["post-875548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-home-invasion","tag-man-shot-in-home-invasion","tag-mount-alpine","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-police","tag-sydney-crime","tag-sydney-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875548","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=875548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}