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Investigators said at the time that the attack was linked to organized crime and the wrong house was targeted.<br \/>A police statement on Wednesday said that officers on Tuesday arrested three males, aged 16, 22 and 23, in the town of Junee about 350 km southwest of Sydney.<br \/>It will be alleged in court that the three males, one of whom was armed with a pistol, entered Tapia&#8217;s home and confronted him before the 23-year-old was fatally shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage boy and two men have been charged with murder for allegedly perpetrating the mistaken identity shooting of a university student in southwest Sydney.Marco Tapia, aged 23, died after he was shot by a group of three offenders who broke into his southwest Sydney home in the early hours of Sept. 1. 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