A woman is in a critical condition after being shot in the
head in a townhouse on the NSW south coast.
Emergency services treated the woman, who is in her 20s, for
a head wound after they were called to the house at Fowlers
Road in Koonawarra, about 6.20pm (AEDT) on Wednesday.
She was airlifted to a Sydney hospital.
A spokesman for police said on Thursday morning that the
woman was believed to have been shot in the head and was in a
critical but stable condition.
Almost an hour after she was shot a man, also aged in his
20s, was stopped by the the Illawarra Highway Patrol while in
a car.
He was being questioned at Lake Illawarra Police Station on
Wednesday night.
The attack, in a southern suburb of Wollongong, comes a day
after a woman had a narrow escape when a bullet struck her
two-storey home in Bennelong St, Granville in Sydney's west.
The 67-year-old woman was unaware of the shooting until she
went to an upstairs bathroom about five hours later and found
the bullet on the floor.
A canvass of the neighbourhood indicated that people heard
something that sounded like a gunshot about 11.30am on
Tuesday.
The angle at which the bullet penetrated the house suggests
it may have been randomly shot in the air, police said.
South West Metropolitan Regional Commander Frank Mennilli
said someone could have been killed or injured. The shot was
apparently "indiscriminate and reckless" and had been fired
from some distance, he told reporters.
There have been 22 shooting incidents in western Sydney in
2012. The spate of incidents prompted police to launch
Operation Spartan in mid-January.
Anyone who witnessed any suspicious activity in Fowlers Road
is being asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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