Shooting in North Adelaide

Shooting

A bullet hole inside Cafe Paesano in North Adelaide. Picture: David Cronin
Source: The Advertiser


Shooting

Polce gather evidence outside Cafe Paesano in North Adelaide. Picture: David Cronin
Source: The Advertiser


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WITNESSES of a shooting at North Adelaide have described the incident as a gunfight and say a second weapon was drawn and fired, wounding one man in a leg.


People who were inside Cafe Paesano, where the shooting took place, say a man wearing a black hoodie entered the restaurant and fired shots at a table where three men were seated about 9.45pm.

As diners dived for cover, a person in the restaurant reportedly fired a shot at the gunman, wounding him in the leg before he fled.

A large area of the suburb has been sealed off as STAR Group officers search the area for the gunman.

Police say early reports that a man was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital for treatment for a leg wound were incorrect, but they have confirmed that blood was found at the scene .

Photographs show clear signs of damage caused by the gunshots inside the restaurant, including a bullet hole in a glass dessert bar .

Witnesses have used Facebook to say there were at least five shots and that some people in The Archer Hotel across the street had dismissed the noise as fireworks at Carols by Candlelight in Elder Park or the Big bash cricket at Adelaide Oval.

A police spokesman said cordons were being set up around the area and he warned people to stay away because an armed man remained on the loose.

A police forward command post was set up outside the shooting scene.

It is the third shooting in Adelaide in recent days.

Early on Saturday, three masked men fired a dozen shots into a Burton house.

At midnight on Thursday, Vincenzo Focarelli, the president of outlaw motorcycle club the Comancheros, survived a third attempt on his life.

He was shot in the leg by a gunman during an ambush at Munno Para West.

On Saturday, Detective Inspector Paul Yeomans played down concerns of a bikie gang war being played out in Adelaide’s suburbs.

“It’s obviously a concern to the police that (we are having) incidents involving firearms and shots being fired into a house,” he said.

“It is a concern that people who live in our community have that reckless disregard for the safety of the public.”

 

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