feud between bikie gangs the Rebels and the Bandidos is being linked to recent drive-by shootings on Sydney streets.
family of four were lucky to escape serious injury after their weatherboard home was sprayed with bullets during the latest drive-by shooting in western Sydney.A three-year-old boy suffered a minor graze in the 14th shooting in Sydney in two weeks, which occurred on Vardys Road at Blacktown just after midnight. It is not yet known what caused the injury.Another boy, aged eight, and a man and a woman were also in the house, but were not injured.A feud between bikie gangs the Rebels and the Bandidos is being linked to recent drive-by shootings on Sydney streets.Witnesses told police they saw three men in a white Holden Commodore fire between 15 and 30 shots at the house.One neighbour said he was woken by "sporadic, rapid fire" and rushed outside to find an empty street."It was dead calm. There was not a soul to be seen in any direction," the man said."It wasn't just a couple of shots I can tell you."It was a fair bevy of shots and I would say from more than one gun is my guess."
Police told another neighbour they believed at least 15 shots were fired, the man said."At least 15 I would have thought. I sleep like a log and to wake me up it must have been something."He said the man in the house that was attacked had suffered a heart attack recently."I know that recently he had a heart attack. He's only a young fellow in his 30s but he's a massive man, maybe 200-plus kilos."The family were quiet and often spent periods away from home, he said."The wife and little kids walk past and pat my dog as they walk past. They're very quiet and they're not there very often. They're away from the premises a lot," he said.Police blocked off Vardys Road between Sunnyholt Road and Charles Street while investigations continued.
In two weeks, houses have been sprayed with bullets in Sadleir in the city's west, Glenwood, Lalor Park, Seven Hills and Baulkham Hills - all in the north-west - and in Chester Hill and Bass Hill in Sydney's south-west.
