‘Mum’s been shot’: Grandmother gunned down by ‘cowards’ in drive-by shooting

A man-hunt is under way for the “cowards” who shot dead a grandmother when peppering her south-west Sydney home with bullets on Monday night.

Kim Duncan, 65, died on her living-room floor after being shot as a flurry of bullets was fired at her Ambarvale home about 11pm on Monday.

When police arrived, they found Duncan with a gunshot wound to her leg. She was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics but died at the scene.

Detective Superintendent Grant Healey, commander of the Campbelltown City Police Area Command, said three people had got out of the vehicle, a dark-coloured sedan, but it was not clear how many had fired shots. No arrests have been made.

Two other people in the home – Duncan’s 34-year-old son and a 21-year-old woman – were uninjured. It is not clear who was the target of the shooting.

Healey described the shooting as “abhorrent” and labelled the shooters “cowards”.

“Somebody coming up to a house and putting shots off is totally reckless, and the consequences are catastrophic,” he said.

“We have a 65-year-old grandmother that’s been shot in the leg by people that walked up and shot at her house.”

Healey said Duncan had lived at the house for between six and eight weeks.

Some of Duncan’s immediate family members were assisting police and remained “very upset”, he said.

“It’s tragic. Your mother and the grandmother of your children’s been shot by cowards that stood out the front of her house,” he said.

He appealed for anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage of the incident to contact police.

Strike Force Apslawn has been launched to investigate the shooting. Officers were on Tuesday morning focusing on the driveway of the home, where more than a dozen evidence markers were laid where the shots were believed to have been fired from.

Jayden, a friend of Duncan’s son, said he received a phone call from his friend shortly after the shooting. By the time he had rushed into the house, Duncan had died on the living-room floor from her injuries.

“It’s not good to hear someone in that level of distress,” Jayden, who declined to be identified, said.

“It was just fight or flight – you don’t know what you’re going to do.”

“When we first come out, the son was in the backyard screaming out that his mum’s just been shot, so he was pretty terrified and, yeah, looks lost,” neighbour Shaun Burridge told Sunrise.

At least half a dozen bullet holes could be seen on the front of the house. Police have cordoned off hundreds of metres of Dickens Road.

Duncan’s body was removed from the home about 9.30am on Tuesday.

Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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