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Drive-by shock By Cam Lucadou-Wells A sleeping teenage boy is believed to be the unintended victim of a second targeted driveby shooting into a home within days in Melbourne’s South East. The 17-year-old was sleeping when he was shot through a second-storey window in Janmara Court, Endeavour Hills early on Wednesday 13 September. A Mitsubishi Eclipse SUV was observed doing “a couple of laps“ of the court before several shots were fired from either the road or the street about 1.20am. He was taken to The Alfred hospital in a stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. Four family members - a 56-year-old man, a 46-year-old woman, a 26-year-old woman and an 11-year-old girl - in the home were not injured. No other homes or cars were struck. The SUV was later torched and abandoned at Sweeney Reserve on Melzak Way, Narre Warren. One of the two alleged offenders may have been burnt at the scene, police believe. “We are in the early stages of the investigation but we are operating in the belief that it was a targeted shooting,” Detective Acting Inspector Al Hanson, of the Armed Crime Squad, said. The boy was “extremely lucky” not to have been killed. “We don’t think he’s the intended target,” Det Act Insp Hanson said. “We don’t believe anyone in the address (at the time) was the intended target. “It’s possible it was a mistaken address but we don’t have information to confirm or otherwise.” He said the shooting was not linked to any others, including multiple shots fired into a family home in Burrows Avenue in Dandenong on Sunday 10 September. Two adult occupants were uninjured after shots were fired at their unit about 11.10pm.
Detective Acting Inspector Al Hanson says the boy is believed to be not the intended target. 360663
Two bulletholes are visible in the home’s top-storey window. 360663 “We do believe both shootings are targeted shootings,“ Det Act Insp Hanson said. “We don’t have a random gunman driving
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Police investigate the scene at Janmara Court, Endeavour Hills. 360663
around firing indiscriminately in Dandenong or Endeavour Hills or surrounding area houses.”
Any information, CCTV or dashcam footage to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or crimestoppersvic.com.au
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