Three people have been taken to hospital after an early morning shooting in Sydney.
NSW police superintendent Simon Glasser said police believed it was a targeted attack, with shots fired into two stationary vehicles. They are looking for at least one man in relation to the shooting.
Emergency services were called to Greenacre, south-west of Sydney’s CBD, shortly after 2.15am on Sunday in response to reports of three injured people in two parked cars, NSW police said in a statement.
Paramedics found one 25-year-old man injured in one vehicle, and a 22-year-old man and 19-year-old woman in another. The Toyota sedan and Mazda hatchback were about 50m apart on the same side of the street.
All three were taken to hospital. The two men were taken to hospital in critical condition with wounds to the head and neck.
On Sunday afternoon the 22-year-old man was in a serious but stable condition at St George hospital.
The 25-year-old man remained in critical condition at Liverpool hospital.
The woman remained in a stable condition in St George hospital.
“It could have resulted in a death and at this stage it still may,” Supt Glasser said.
About five minutes after the shooting, a car was set on fire in nearby Regents Park. The blaze spread to a wooden fence and tree and was attended by a Fire and Rescue NSW team.
Police are investigating whether it was linked to the shooting.
They are looking for “at least one male” in connection to the shooting but it was not known if more people were involved.
“The investigation is in its infancy however we do believe it was a targeted attack,” Supt Glasser said.
Potential gangland links to the attack were “certainly an avenue for our investigation, however at this early stage there’s no direct link to anything ongoing”, he said.
“We haven’t found any direct information to attribute [the shooting] to any ongoing conflicts at the moment.”
Police have not identified the victims and were not sure they were the intended targets of the attack.
“We’re trying to establish what both parties were doing at the location,” he said.
Crime scenes have been established in both locations as police begin inquiries. They are collecting CCTV from around the crime scene and looking for eyewitnesses.
