A man is being questioned by police after a woman in her 20s was shot in the head south of Sydney.
Emergency services treated the woman for the wound after they were called to the house in the Wollongong suburb of Koonawarra about 6.20pm (AEDT) on Wednesday.
She was flown to Sydney Hospital but her condition is unknown, police say.
Almost an hour later a man, also aged in his 20s, was stopped in his car by a police highway patrol.
Police said he was helping with inquiries at Lake Illawarra police station.
The attack comes a day after a woman had a narrow escape when a bullet struck her two-storey home in Bennelong St, Granville, in Sydney’s west.
The 67-year-old was unaware of the shooting until she went to an upstairs bathroom about five hours later and found the bullet on the floor.
A canvass of the neighbourhood indicated people heard something that sounded like a gunshot about 11.30am on Tuesday.
The angle at which the bullet penetrated the house suggests it may have been randomly fired in the air, police said.
South West Metropolitan Regional Commander Frank Mennilli said someone could have been killed or injured. The shot was apparently “indiscriminate and reckless” and had been fired from some distance, he told reporters.
There have been 22 shooting incidents in western Sydney in 2012. The spate of incidents prompted police to launch Operation Spartan in mid-January.
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