Man charged over fatal shooting of child in northwest Sydney

Police said on Wednesday that a man has been charged with murder over the September shooting of a child in northwest Sydney. The 12-year-old boy died in hospital days after he was shot in the face and neck at a unit in Sydney’s northwest suburbs on the evening of Sept. 21.
A police statement on Wednesday said that nine other people who were in the home at the time of the incident were not injured.
Three 18-year-old men were arrested at the time, with two released by police and the third charged with concealing a serious indictable offense.
Following an investigation, homicide squad detectives on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old man, who was 18 at the time of the incident, at a prison in western Sydney and charged him with murder.