Police searching for a killer after multiple shots fired in an attack on a home in AmbarvaleElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA woman has been killed in a drive-by shooting in suburban Sydney after she was hit in the leg when a home was peppered with bullets.Police were searching for her killer on Tuesday after the overnight attack at Ambarvale on Sydney’s south-west outskirts.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading…Police searching for a killer after multiple shots fired in an attack on a home in AmbarvaleElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA woman has been killed in a drive-by shooting in suburban Sydney after she was hit in the leg when a home was peppered with bullets.Police were searching for her killer on Tuesday after the overnight attack at Ambarvale on Sydney’s south-west outskirts.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading…
A drive-by shooting has killed a woman in her 60s and left a suburban Sydney home peppered with bullet holes.
The killer remained on the run on Tuesday with authorities hunting for those responsible for the overnight attack in Ambarvale on Sydney’s south-west outskirts.
Shots were fired from an unknown vehicle at a house on Dickens Road on Monday night when the 65-year-old woman was hit.
Emergency services were called to the property about 11pm and treated the woman, but she died at the scene.
Two other people in the home were not injured – a 21-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man.
Nearby resident Louise Hosar said she heard gunshots after 10.30pm.
“Within 20 minutes I went to bed and my bedroom just lit up with the police lights … they didn’t have the sirens going but there was a lot of police presence and ambulances up there,” she said.
“I woke my house up to alert them that something was happening … it was very distressing to hear the family and shocking to find out she was an elderly lady.”
Local officers and the homicide squad were investigating with a number of police vehicles outside the property as authorities began their probe.
Police inspected bullet holes on the stairs leading to the property’s front door and on the front wall of the house.
At least three bullet holes could be seen on the house, while about 10 yellow evidence markers were spotted at the taped-off area outside the house.
Investigators also crawled to look underneath a car parked in the property’s driveway.
Along with the two uninjured occupants in the house, police said members of the public would be key to their investigation. They asked witnesses to contact Crimestoppers.
Hosar, who has lived in the area for 18 years but did not know the dead woman, said the violence was “part of living on Dickens Road”.
“Every few weeks there’s a lot of police presence,” she said.
“Dickens Road always gets the negative [attention] but we do have some really nice people that live on Dickens Road and in Campbelltown in general.”