A man has been charged following an alleged shooting in the state\u2019s north today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 8.50am (Wednesday 8 October 2025), emergency services were called to a property on Rotherwood Road, Cassilis, following reports a man had sustained a gunshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and were told the man allegedly sustained the injury while hunting on the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW Ambulance paramedics attended the scene and declared the 71-year-old man deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene was established and Hunter Valley detectives commenced inquiries into the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, a 63-year-old man was arrested and taken to Muswellbrook Police Station where he was charged with manslaughter and fire firearm manner likely injure persons or property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His bail was refused to appear at Local Bail Division – Court 2 tomorrow (Thursday 9 October 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged following an alleged shooting in the state\u2019s north today. About 8.50am (Wednesday 8 October 2025), emergency services were called to a property on Rotherwood Road, Cassilis, following reports a man had sustained a gunshot. Police attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and were told the man allegedly sustained the … Continue reading “Man charged after alleged shooting \u2013 Upper Hunter”<\/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-35301","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\/35301","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=35301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35302,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35301\/revisions\/35302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}