{"id":933077,"date":"2026-10-18T22:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933077\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:54:12","slug":"alleged-gunman-in-dulwich-hill-lockdown-incident-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933077\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged gunman in Dulwich Hill lockdown incident charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has been charged amid an investigation into reports of a gunman in Sydney&#8217;s inner west, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police were called to a car park in Dulwich Hill about 10:20am on Friday after reports of a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers were told a man was allegedly armed with a firearm inside a reported stolen vehicle before setting fire to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fire and Rescue NSW extinguished the fire with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man left the scene on foot, sending the area into lockdown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gates driveway in leafy street with smoke cloud around\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792364052_473_364564aa6259acc458b1ce8bde3fa935.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\">Smoke from the vehicle fire could be seen from the street. (Supplied: Roland Tellzen)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police established a crime scene and began a search for the alleged gunman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Strike Force Ranilo was established to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Sunday night, a 32-year-old man was arrested in Burwood after allegedly attempting to evade police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Paramedics treated the man for a minor injury sustained during the arrest, before he was taken to Concord Hospital for treatment under police guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was then taken to Newtown Police Station where he was charged with seven offences including possessing a shortened firearm without authority, and robbery while armed with dangerous weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He has been refused bail and is scheduled to face bail court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged amid an investigation into reports of a gunman in Sydney&#8217;s inner west, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,499863,282641,12491,5315,9786,121781,44,2733,4277,670,110922,182874,499862],"class_list":["post-933077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-burwood","tag-dulwich-hill","tag-gunman","tag-investigation","tag-lockdown","tag-man-arrested","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-police","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-crime","tag-sydney-news","tag-vehicle-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933077","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=933077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}