{"id":279540,"date":"2025-10-05T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279540\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:01:12","slug":"man-arrested-after-shots-fired-in-sydneys-croydon-park-launching-major-police-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279540\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after shots fired in Sydney&#8217;s Croydon Park, launching major police operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has been arrested after a number of shots were fired in the inner-west Sydney suburb of Croydon Park and four people were injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NSW Ambulance said one person was taken to the Canterbury Hospital with a gunshot wound, with paramedics treating another person at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two people also arrived at Campsie Police Station with what the ambulance service described as minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">About 9.30pm AEDT a man was arrested in a building on Georges River Road, where police seized his firearms, NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers could be heard telling someone to &#8220;put your hands up&#8221; and &#8220;get down&#8221; during the man&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armed police stand in a cluster. \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ebd43c8a7705cdfbe5fb760245814620\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Armed police attend the incident in Sydney&#8217;s inner-west.\u00a0 (ABC News\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Earlier, police told the ABC multiple gunshots were fired.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Tactical police could be seen driving an armoured Bearcat vehicle into the area, alongside a police helicopter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An ABC reporter at the scene heard what appeared to be gunshots around 9pm, followed by a succession of bangs witnesses say were caused by flash grenades.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police cars line the street. \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f19279fe6768021084323019c7cd1827\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police cars at the active scene in Croydon Park.\u00a0 (ABC News: Tony Ibrahim\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say the area has been locked down with Georges River Road closed between Croydon Avenue and Seymour Street and Brighton Avenue closed between Georges River Road and Queensborough Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Road closures remain with local traffic diversions in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a number of shots were fired in the inner-west Sydney suburb of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,144473,50,22234,101,13048],"class_list":{"0":"post-279540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-croydon-park","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nsw-ambulance","12":"tag-shooting","13":"tag-sydney"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115321693065965495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}