{"id":985533,"date":"2026-08-06T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/985533\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:17:19","slug":"man-shot-in-chest-and-car-set-alight-in-sydneys-south-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/985533\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot in chest and car set alight in Sydney&#8217;s south-west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An 18-year-old man has been shot in the chest, with police later finding a ute found alight in Sydney&#8217;s south-west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to Mimosa Road at Greenacre at about 9pm on Thursday after reports of gunshots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the victim was shot twice in the chest on nearby Banksia Road before he was driven to Mimosa Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was treated by paramedics and was taken to hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The vehicle he was transported in, a Skoda SUV,<strong> <\/strong>was seized for forensic examination, and police are speaking to the driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said emergency services were called to a car fire on Celia in Street in Granville at about 3am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Responding officers found a Toyota Hilux well alight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The blaze was extinguished by firefighters but the vehicle was significantly damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said a third crime scene was established on the street and investigators are treating the incidents as linked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Inquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man has been shot in the chest, with police later finding a ute found alight in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":985534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,4219,256840,149481,50,17364,22234,9309,101,13048],"class_list":["post-985533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-greenacre","tag-gunshot","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-ambulance","tag-nsw-police","tag-shooting","tag-sydney"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117051120049515059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985533","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=985533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}