Gunman opens hearth on Sydney road, injuring 20, one significantly

A person is in custody after allegedly capturing as much as 100 bullets right into a busy Sydney road, wounding twenty folks, with police on Monday (October 6, 2025) ruling out hyperlinks to terrorism or gang exercise.

Police had been known as on Sunday (October 5, 2025) night to a road within the metropolis’s Inner West, the place the alleged gunman was firing at random at passing automobiles and police.

Office employee Joe Azar mentioned he was working throughout the street when he heard what he thought had been fireworks or rocks being thrown on the home windows.

“Some man’s windshield blew up, then the bus cease glass shattered,” Mr. Azar advised The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

“The surreal feeling kicked in like, ‘Oh, that is what’s occurring’,” he mentioned. “It was frantic. It all occurred so fast, so I couldn’t comprehend what was happening.”

50 to 100 photographs

New South Wales Police Acting Superintendent Stephen Parry mentioned “wherever between 50 and 100 photographs” had been fired.

A big contingent of police swarmed the realm and locked down the road, earlier than coming into a unit above a enterprise and arresting a 60-year-old man. They seized two rifles from the scene.

The accused shooter was taken to hospital and handled for wounds sustained throughout his arrest. No prices have been laid in opposition to the alleged gunman but.

One man self-presented to hospital with a gunshot wound following the incident and is in a “severe” situation, police mentioned.

Another 19 folks had been handled for shrapnel or shattered glass accidents, with a number of taken to hospital.

‘Terrifying’

New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon on Monday described the capturing as “severe and terrifying”.

The gunman’s motive was unclear however there have been “no recognized hyperlinks to terrorism exercise or any gang exercise,” he advised native radio station 2GB.

One witness who gave his identify as Tadgh advised the nationwide broadcaster ABC he had been watching the rugby when he first heard the gunshots.

“It was very loud and ‘bang, bang, bang’ and flash-bangs and sparks and smoke and the entire works. It was one thing out of a film, actually,” he mentioned.

A police investigation is ongoing.

Ban on automated weapons

Mass shootings are comparatively uncommon in Australia.

A ban on automated and semi-automatic weapons has been in place since 1996, when a lone gunman killed 35 folks in Port Arthur, Tasmania.

In August, alleged gunman Dezi Freeman went on the run within the bush after being accused of killing two cops. He stays at massive.

And in 2022, six folks together with two cops had been killed in a capturing close to the small Queensland city of Wieambilla.