Marrickville shooting: Six arrested after fatal daylight gun incident near PM's office

Six men have been arrested as part of investigations into a shooting near the prime minister’s electorate office.
Police allege the July 2023 attack, in which two men were shot in a hair salon on a busy suburban strip, was linked to a fatal shooting weeks earlier.
The shooting at Marrickville in Sydney’s inner-west took place on a Friday afternoon, metres from a police station and the electorate office of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
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A 33-year-old was shot in the buttocks and a 20-year-old shot in the chest.
Early morning raids on Thursday led to the arrests of six men, as well as the seizure of outlaw motorcycle gang vests, cash, jewellery, drugs and vehicles.
Three men are due to face court on Friday, and a 42-year-old man arrested on Queensland’s Gold Coast is expected to be extradited.
The men were arrested over links to a criminal syndicate identified by police investigating the shooting, with commercial drug supply and kidnapping conspiracies among their alleged activities.
None of the men arrested are accused of pulling the trigger.
One man, 47, is due to face Burwood Local Court accused of being involved in a joint criminal enterprise planning and conducting the shooting, but is not the alleged gunman, police say.
He has also been charged with commercial drug supply, kidnapping conspiracy, proceeds of crime, directing the activities of a criminal group, intimidation, and a domestic violence-related common assault.
While police raided properties around Sydney and the Gold Coast, detectives searched bushland and waterways, investigating links between the Marrickville attack and an earlier fatal shooting.
Marvin Oraiha, a 24-year-old alleged associate of the same outlaw motorcycle gang as some of the men arrested on Thursday, was shot in his car at Elizabeth Hills in Sydney’s west in May 2023.
Several men have also been arrested over that shooting, which is thought to have sparked several others as part of an escalating gang war.