{"id":245838,"date":"2026-01-22T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245838\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:51:07","slug":"three-dead-in-new-south-wales-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245838\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead in New South Wales shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Three people have died after a reported shooting in a small town in New South Wales, Australia, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A fourth person has been taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Local police are now investigating the reported shooting which took place in Lake Cargelligo at about 16:40 local time (05:40 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police have also told the public to avoid the area and that local residents should stay inside. Local reports say that the gunman is still at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.police.nsw.gov.au\/news\/news_article?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzOi8vZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdS9tZWRpYS8xMjMwODYuaHRtbCZhbGw9MQ==\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A police statement said<\/a> emergency services were called to Walker Street near Yelkin Street following reports of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two women and a man have died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the incident was a suspected domestic violence attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It also reports that authorities are still trying to locate the gunman and that heavily armed tactical police have been deployed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Seven News reports that the gunman had fled the scene in a vehicle owned by the local council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Lake Cargelligo is located in the centre of New South Wales and has a population of about 1,500 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The incident comes after last month&#8217;s mass shooting at Sydney&#8217;s Bondi Beach which killed 15 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have died after a reported shooting in a small town in New South Wales, Australia, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-245838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}