A man has been charged with shooting intent to murder after he allegedly gunned down a 39-year-old in a western Sydney street disrupting a child’s birthday party metres away last week.
NSW Police detectives charged the man after being called to an unrelated incident at Smithfield on Sunday moxjmtzywrning.
A 39-year-old man remains in Westmead Hospital in a stable condition after being hit with gunshot blasts to his leg and shoulder last Sunday.
According to eyewitnesses, the man was shot in the street by a man leaning out of a 4WD.
The blasts interrupted a two-year-old’s birthday party just metres away, with parents halting the celebration to help the man who was lying bloody in Bletchley Place.
“I heard the first two shots and I jumped up on the fence to see what was going on,” the child’s father told Nine News last week.
“And I’ve seen someone lean out the window with a shotgun and firing at the guy laying on the ground.
“We got everyone inside. I then went to come out of the gate and realised they were still there.”
Police launched Strike Force Wailelle to hunt for the gunman.
Officers on Sunday arrested a 30-year-old man after responding to an unrelated incident.
Police were called after reports of a fight in street at Barton Street, Smithfield around 3am.
The man was arrested and a shotgun and pistol were seized at the scene, with police searching a Barton Street home on Sunday afternoon.
The man was charged with intent to murder.
He was refused bail and will appear in Fairfield Local Court on Monday.
