A night of gun crime in a western Sydney suburb has ended in the grim discovery of a body in a creek.
The spree started shortly before 10pm on Tuesday when a man allegedly shot a gun into a home on Antwerp Street, Auburn, in a domestic violence incident.
Police were told a man who was known to the occupants of the home had tried to break in before he fired the shot.
No one was injured and the man had fled the scene before police arrived.
While officers processed the crime scene, a 55-year-old man was allegedly confronted at Mona Street in Auburn by an unknown man while he was sitting in a car.
The unknown man produced a gun and shot the driver, hitting him in the neck, police said. The gunman fled the scene and the alleged victim was taken to Westmead Hospital in a stable condition.
Police established a second crime scene on Mona Street. The two shootings are believed to be linked.
A search of the Auburn area was launched and at 2.15am on Wednesday officers discovered the body of a man in Duck Creek – a narrow waterway around a 10-minute drive from both crime scenes.
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