{"id":903876,"date":"2026-09-24T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903876\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:38:09","slug":"boy-11-shot-in-the-face-and-neck-in-sydney-dies-from-his-injuries-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903876\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 11, shot in the face and neck in Sydney dies from his injuries | Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young boy who was allegedly shot at a home in Sydney\u2019s north-west earlier this week has died.<\/p>\n

Police said that the boy, who had been in a critical condition since being found with a gunshot wound at a unit in Norwest on Monday, died in hospital at about 8pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Police had been called to the unit in Fairway Drive at about 5pm on Monday after reports of a shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Officers found the 11-year-old boy had sustained a gunshot wound to his face and neck.<\/p>\n

He was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to at Westmead Children\u2019s hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

Five other people who were in the home at the time of the incident were not injured.<\/p>\n

Three men, all aged 18, were arrested. Two were taken to The Hills police station and later released pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n

One of the men, Isaac Bechara, was charged with concealing a serious indictable offence, while two of the other men were arrested and released pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n

He appeared at Blacktown local court on Tuesday morning , where he made no application for bail, which was refused.<\/p>\n

Det Supt Naomi Moore told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that police were \u201caware\u201d of the unit where the shooting had occurred and had \u201cengaged with the occupants previously\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shooting at this stage does not appear to be linked directly to current conflicts however a number of individuals who were inside the unit at the time are well known to NSW police,\u201d she said. \u201cTheir association with organised crime is being considered by investigators.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said the investigation was continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young boy who was allegedly shot at a home in Sydney\u2019s north-west earlier this week has died.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-903876","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\/903876","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=903876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}