A home in Melbourne’s north-west has been sprayed with bullets in the second drive-by shooting at the property in less than a week.
The shooter opened fire on the Rowan Drive house in Kealba at about 5:15am from inside a vehicle. No-one was inside at the time.
This morning’s shooting comes six days after the same home was shot at repeatedly last Thursday, when five people were inside.
No-one was injured when the offender in that attack fired about four shots through the home’s glass front door before fleeing in a white SUV at about 1am.
The front door of the Kealba home was punctured by bullets during a separate attack on July 9. (ABC News)
A car parked outside the property was also set alight and vehicles parked outside two other addresses in Keilor Downs and Taylors Lakes were also destroyed by fire on the same night.
The Kealba shooting followed an attack in Gladstone Park last night, when a shooter fired at a home on Payne Street just before 11:15pm.
They fired several shots at the single-storey brick home before speeding off in a car.
No-one was inside at the time.
Forensic teams searched for bullet casings out the front of the property on Wednesday morning. (ABC News)
Detectives and forensic specialists combed Payne Street for evidence on Wednesday morning and several spent bullet casings were found on the ground outside the property.
Police could be seen photographing the area, which remained cordoned off by police tape, while others searched through shrubbery outside the house.
Local man Arron John said neighbours were lucky not to be caught in the gunfire.
“There could’ve been someone who could have gotten hurt because of this,” he said.
“There’s definitely something going on here that we don’t know about.”
Arron John says the neighbourhood is usually safe and quiet. (ABC News)
Mr John said his mother woke to the sound of gunfire.
“She’s been really concerned and a bit scared, I guess, because of what has happened,” he said.
Mr John said he believed a car parked at the same address had been the target of a firebombing several days before the shooting.
What appeared to be the charred debris was visible in the driveway on Wednesday.
Police are investigating whether the incidents in the north-western suburbs in recent days are connected.
