{"id":9356,"date":"2020-11-26T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T10:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2020-11-26T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T10:22:58","slug":"man-charged-over-alleged-shooting-in-scone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/man-charged-over-alleged-shooting-in-scone\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over alleged shooting in Scone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court today charged over an alleged shooting in the Hunter Valley earlier this week.<br \/>\nJust after 4am on Tuesday (24 November 2020), a 43-year-old man presented to Scone Hospital with gunshot wounds to his leg and ankle \u2013 he remains in a stable condition in John Hunter Hospital.<br \/>\nOfficers from Hunter Valley Police District commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding how the man sustained his injuries.<br \/>\nFollowing further inquiries, police executed a crime scene warrant at a home on Barton Street, Scone, yesterday (Wednesday 25 November 2020), where they arrested a 51-year-old man.<br \/>\nDuring the warrant, police located two firearms and a hydroponic setup. Police remain at the scene this morning (Thursday 26 November 2020).<br \/>\nThe man was taken to Scone Police Station, where he was charged with eight offences;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discharge firearm intend cause grievous bodily harm<\/li>\n<li>Possess unregistered firearm-not prohibited firearm\/pistol (x2)<\/li>\n<li>Not keep firearm safely-not prohibited firearm\/pistol (x2)<\/li>\n<li>Cultivate prohibited plant commercial quantity-cannabis<\/li>\n<li>Possess unauthorised firearm (x2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was refused bail to appear at Muswellbrook Local Court today (Thursday 26 November 2020).<br \/>\nPolice will allege in court the 43-year-old attended the Scone property shortly before 4am on Tuesday (24 November 2020), where he spoke with the older man at the premises.<br \/>\nIt will be further alleged the pair became involved in an altercation before the older man shot the younger man.<br \/>\nThe younger man left the scene and drove to a nearby premises before attending Scone Hospital for treatment.<br \/>\nInitial investigations suggest the incident was targeted.<br \/>\nInvestigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court today charged over an alleged shooting in the Hunter Valley earlier this week. Just after 4am on Tuesday (24 November 2020), a 43-year-old man presented to Scone Hospital with gunshot wounds to his leg and ankle \u2013 he remains in a stable condition in John Hunter Hospital. Officers from Hunter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/man-charged-over-alleged-shooting-in-scone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged over alleged shooting in Scone&#8221;<\/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-9356","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\/9356","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=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}