A second man has been charged following the fatal shooting of a man in Newcastle earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emergency services were called to the Bar Beach carpark on Memorial Drive about 11.40pm on Wednesday 23 April 2025 and found a man with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the 18-year-old man, but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene was established by officers attached to Newcastle City Police District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police will allege a group of people were fighting in the car park when a white SUV drove up and a man armed with a firearm got out, fired, and left in the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An investigation commenced involving detectives from Newcastle, assisted by the State Crime Command\u2019s Homicide Squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday 25 April 2025, a 22-year-old was arrested and charged with murder. He remains before the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, on Wednesday 7 May 2025, police executed a search warrant at a unit on Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle, where a firearm and ammunition were seized for forensic examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 25-year-old man was arrested nearby and was taken to Newcastle Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was charged with acquire etc firearm – subject to prohibition order, acquire etc ammunition subject to prohibition order, possess ammunition without holding licence\/permit\/authority, use, supply, acquire, possess stolen firearm or part, firearm etc found at premises-subject to prohibition order and breach of bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following further inquiries, the 25-year-old man was arrested at a correctional facility in Kempsey today (Thursday 10 July 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was charged with murder and possess unauthorised prohibited firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Investigations under Strike Force Bolwarra continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A second man has been charged following the fatal shooting of a man in Newcastle earlier this year. Emergency services were called to the Bar Beach carpark on Memorial Drive about 11.40pm on Wednesday 23 April 2025 and found a man with a gunshot wound. NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the 18-year-old man, but he died … Continue reading “Second man charged with murder over fatal shooting \u2013 Newcastle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33652,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33651\/revisions\/33652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}