Forensic crews were examining the crime scene left in Matthew Street Heckenberg after a fatal shooting at around 6:30pm last night. Photo / Gordon McComiskie
Forensic crews were examining the crime scene left in Matthew Street Heckenberg after a fatal shooting at around 6:30pm last night. Photo / Gordon McComiskie
Police are hunting for a motorist who fired a handgun at two pedestrians at a southwest Sydney intersection, hitting and killing a man in a passing car.
Police say that shortly after 6.30pm on Friday, the motorist confronted two men who were crossing Matthew Street in Heckenberg.
He fired atthem, but the round missed the pair and struck a man driving his car, which went on to hit one of the pedestrians.
Scene of shooting in Heckenberg in Sydney's West. Photo / Jeremy Piper
The 46-year-old man struck by the bullet died at the scene.