Police are scouring a “large search area” for a shooter who killed three people and injured a fourth in a small town in NSW’s central west before fleeing in a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Julian Ingram, also known as Pierpoint, a 37-year-old man, was named by police on Friday morning as the suspected murderer, issuing a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n
Locals in Lake Cargelligo, about 550 kilometres west of Sydney, have been told to stay indoors and report any suspicious activity after the attack on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
A 32-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were killed when bullets were fired into their vehicle about 4.20pm (local time) on Bokhara Street, Lake Cargelligo.<\/p>\n
A short time later, a 50-year-old woman was shot dead at nearby Walker Street, with a 19-year-old man also shot and taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n
The three people were killed in the space of about half an hour.<\/p>\n
“There are concerns that this offender may be armed with a firearm,<\/p>\n
“The offender is currently on the move, and we are looking to try and locate this offender,” western region police commander Andy Holland said on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police have advised Ingram was “last seen driving a Ford Ranger utility with NSW registration DM-07-GZ described as having council signage, a metal tray back, high visibility markings on the side and an emergency light bar on the roof.”<\/p>\n
“Anyone who sees Julian is urged not to approach and contact Triple Zero (000) immediately.”<\/p>\n
Extra personnel have been brought in from surrounding areas to help with the search, including tactical operations police, search co-ordinators and air crews.<\/p>\n
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“The scene faced by the emergency services officers at that time would have been horrendous,” Mr Holland said.<\/p>\n
A staff member at the Commercial Hotel in the centre of town, who did not wish to be named, said there had been a lot of police activity after what they believed was a shooting in a house.<\/p>\n
“I’m just inside, trying to not be around,” they told AAP.<\/p>\n
A manager of a local motel said it was “a little bit scary” in the town and she believed more police were headed to the area.<\/p>\n
Roy Butler, the independent member for Barwon, described the situation as “tragic news”.<\/p>\n
“It’s a terrible situation, and it’s still live, so we don’t have much information. My thoughts are with the victims and their families,” he said.<\/p>\n
“As there has been a number of shootings and the offender has not been detained \u2013 please stay indoors until the advice changes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are scouring a “large search area” for a shooter who killed three people and injured a fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-246986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246986","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=246986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}