A body was discovered on the side of the road and shots were fired from a Mercedes ute along a major highway, leading to the arrest of two men on the NSW Mid North Coast.
After an hours-long manhunt, the two men were apprehended by heavily armed police behind a Big W in Kempsey, close to a riverbank.
Officially, the police are not searching for anybody else in connection with the incident.
The events started early this morning when a black Mercedes dual cab ute on the M1 at Coopernook, Kundabung, Fernbank Creek Road in Port Macquarie, and the Telegraph Point area fired multiple shots.
In Coopernook, one of the bullets barely missed a man driving. When paramedics examined him, they found that he had only minor wounds. He was released from the hospital after that.
A police car trying to stop the Mercedes on the M1 near Fernbank Creek Road was also struck by a bullet. The shootings are being investigated by police as random, and they believe that four cars were struck in total.
A man’s body was discovered on the side of the road at Fernbank Creek Road in Port Macquarie this morning, according to Acting Assistant Commissioner Scott Tanner.
“At this stage, we don’t know if it is linked with this incident,” he stated. Although the crime scenes are still being examined by forensic experts, investigators are treating the man’s death as suspicious.
Throughout the course of today’s investigations, police have searched numerous crime scenes that span nearly 100 km from Coopernook to Kempsey.Finding the weapons that authorities believe were used in the shooting is now the focus of operations.
They think multiple guns were used in the incident. Tanner had previously stated that the ute was discovered abandoned in Port Macquarie’s Wayne Richards Park.
Afterwards, he verified that the vehicle had not been reported stolen. The men are anticipated to be brought to the Kempsey Police Station, where, following investigations by the police, they will probably face charges.
