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    Shootings since Barry O'Farrell came to office

    1. April 17, 2012 shots fired into home on Grimwood Street, Granville.2. April 17 - shots fired into a tattoo parlour on Pitt Street, Merrylands.3. April 17 - shots fired into a home on Harris Street, Merrylands with two elderly residents

    inside.

    4. April 17 - shots fired into a home on Centenary Avenue, Northmead with five childreninside.5. April 17 shots fired into tattoo parlour on Seven Hills Road, Baulkham Hills.6. April 15 - 24 year old man presented at Concord Hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.

    Officers have been told a person in a white sedan shot the man.7. April 14 - Shots fired at a home and car in Pemulwuy.8. April 14 man fatally shot in Berkley9. April 14 shots fired at home in Chiswick Street, Greenacre.10. April 11 - 20-year-old male shot in leg at Rosehill11. April 10 - man shot in abdomen at Guildford in broad daylight12. April 9 Man shot in shoulder in packed Bada Bing nightclub in Kings Cross.13. April 9 - 17-year-old boy shot in leg at Mt Druitt

    14. April 8 Man shot in leg in Arnett St, Pendle Hill. Five men arrested.15. April 7 - Shortly after 11.30pm police called to Rickard Road, Auburn, following reports a

    man had been shot. Officers were unable to locate any injured person, however a shorttime later, a man presented at Auburn Hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg.

    16. April 6 Police called to Patten Avenue, Merrylands, after reports of gun shots at 5.20pm.Police attended and located a couple of casings. A crime scene was established. Later, a24-year-old man reported to Westmead Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds to his leg.

    17. April 4 - Single shot fired into a home at Norton Place, Minto, but no one was home at thetime. Approximately 5pm. Police arrested two men in relation to April 4 shootings, butneither charged with shooting offences.

    18. April 4 Bullet damaged a vehicle outside a house on Chester Rd, Ingleburn atapproximately 1pm.

    19. April 2 - man lucky to escape death after he was shot in the neck while answering the frontdoor at his Merrylands home, with two innocent children inside. Bullet grazed his neck.

    20. April 1 man shot in leg in vicinity of Fraser Street, Auburn21. March 28 Bullets sprayed into a premises in Clyde, five casings found22. March 13 Sleeping family lucky to escape injury after bullets were fired into their Bexley

    home23. March 8 - Shots fired at a tattoo parlour in Burwood24. March 6 - Shots fired at a tattoo parlour at Baulkham Hills25. March 3 - Shots fired at BMW parked outside a property on Little Road, Bankstown, while

    the driver visited friends26. February 20 five bullet casings found at Panania.27. February 19 - The spate of shootings plaguing Sydney has continued overnight with several

    shots fired on a suburban street in Busby the 64 th shooting since Barry OFarrell becamePremier.

    28. February 14 Bullet struck house in Bennelong St, Granville at 11:30am. The 67 year oldoccupant was home but uninjured.

    29. February 6 Police called to a house in Christian Rd, Punchbowl at 12:45am after a manwas shot in the leg three times

    30. February 5 - Shots fired at a home in Melville Street, St Clair in the early hours of themorning

    31. February 1 Police report at least one shot was fired at Lurnea Public School, betweenJanuary 30 and February 1.

    32. January 29 Police called to Denman Ave, Wiley Park and established crime scene after

    casings found33. January 26 Shots fired into a tanning salon on the Princes Highway in Rockdale34. January 26 24-year-old man shot twice in the leg at Bolton Street, Guildford35. January 26 Man in Auburn Hospital with a gunshot wound in back, refuses to make

    statement to police

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    36. January 17 Four shots fired into house on Coleridge Road, Wetherill Park.37. January 15 Several cartridges found on the street after shots fired on Pelman Avenue,

    Greenacre.38. January 13 Three bullet holes found in front windows of a house on Alan Street,

    Yagoona.39. January 12 Bullet casings found in Chalmers Street, Lakemba after shots fired.40. January 12 Shots fired at a house on Larra Street, Yennora, while a 40-year-old woman

    and her two daughters, aged 16 and 9, were inside.41. January 12 Shots fired at a house on Weigand Avenue, Bankstown at 12.30am, comingwithin centimetres of a child's cot. A mother and her four children aged two months to 10-years-old, escaped injury.

    42. January 11 - A blue Toyota and a white sedan were involved in a gun battle on MimosaRoad, Greenfield Park about 2.05am.

    43. January 9 - Shooting at Marion St, Auburn44. January 9 Shooting 10 minutes later in at a house in Sydney's south at Arncliffe, with 15

    people inside.45. January 6 - A man suffered two gunshot wounds at the intersection of Larra Street and The

    Promenade, Yennora.46. January 4 - Lone Wolf bikie, Neal Todorovski, 37, was shot dead outside a Sans Souci

    apartment block.47. January 2 - Shots fired at an empty car parked outside a house on Spurway Street,

    Ermington.48. January 1, 2012 - Matthew Hedges, a 25-year-old father of four, was shot dead in the chest

    while two of his children slept beside him at a Chester Hill home

    49. December 5 - A father and his teenage son escaped injury after a shot was fired into ahouse in Mount Pritchard

    50. November 26 - Shots fired on Charles Street, Petersham.51. November 25 - Shots fired at house on Kingarth Street, Busby.52. November 24 - Shots fired at house on Nash Street, South Penrith.53. November 24 - Shots fired at business on Cleveland and Walker Streets, Redfern.54. November 10 - Shots fired at house on Nineveh Crescent, Greenfield Park.55. November 6 - Shots fired at house on Stevens Street, Ermington56. November 5 - Shots fired at a home in Merrylands57. November 3 - At least four bullets struck the bedroom where a woman was sleeping about

    12.15am at a townhouse at Northmead.58. October 30 - Shortly after midnight two houses were hit by bullets at Granville. Both were

    occupied at the time but the residents escaped uninjured.59. October 30 - Only minutes later another house on a nearby street (Granville) was also hit,

    with one woman inside the house requiring medical treatment for shock.60. October 30 - An unoccupied house at Canley Heights was struck just before 1.00am.61. October 29 - Just before 10.00pm, three shots fired into a house at Holroyd. Five people

    including a child were home at the time but no-one was injured.62. October 27 - Drive by shooting at an Oporto restaurant in Merrylands63. October 21 - Man dies after he was shot in the head inside a house in French Street,

    Maroubra.64. October 18 - Shots fired at a house on Walker Street, Turrella.65. October 3 - Man charged after allegedly shooting at another man on Pickwick Way,

    Ambarvale.66. September 30 - Man charged after an alleged drive-by shooting on Victoria Street, Botany.67. September 26 - Teenager shot by police in his home in Holmes Street, Colyton, following

    reported break-in.68. September 26 - Man charged with murder following shooting death of man at Bonnyrigg the

    day before.69. September 6 - Shots fired at a house in Revesby in south-west Sydney.70. September 6 - Shots fired at a unit in Eden Street, Arncliffe.71. September 5 - Man found in Bursill Street, Guildford, with a shotgun wound to his upper

    thigh.

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