A woman has suffered a gunshot wound to her arm at Gateshead overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District have been told two women and two men were leaving a unit on Paper Street about 8.45pm (Tuesday 30 June 2026), when they were approached by two people who had their faces covered; one was holding a firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police have been told two shots were fired towards the group, with a 50-year-old woman suffering a gunshot wound to her right upper arm. The second round struck a window of the unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All six people then left the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police were not alerted to the incident until about 9.20pm, when a crime scene was established and canvass of the area conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, the injured woman was found at a home in Charlestown and was taken by NSW Ambulance to John Hunter Hospital to be treated. She remains there in a stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A second woman, aged 38, remains at a police station within the command as inquiries continue to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Detectives are appealing for anyone with information about, or relevant vision of, the incident to contact Belmont Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman has suffered a gunshot wound to her arm at Gateshead overnight. Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District have been told two women and two men were leaving a unit on Paper Street about 8.45pm (Tuesday 30 June 2026), when they were approached by two people who had their faces covered; one was … Continue reading “Woman shot in arm \u2013 Gateshead”<\/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-39731","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\/39731","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=39731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39732,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39731\/revisions\/39732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}