Greek Australian Charged with Attempted Murder After Mass Shooting Incident in Sydney

Mintzas was formally charged with the 25 offences, which see attempted murder. Credit: Artemios Mintzas/Facebook

Sixty-year-old Artemios (Artie) Mintzas, a Greek Australian man, has been charged with 25 offences, including attempted murder, pursuing a wide shooting incidental successful Croydon Park, occidental Sydney, connected Sunday night.

Mintzas allegedly fired up to 50 shots randomly and indiscriminately from an flat window. The barrage of gunfire struck 13 vehicles and a autobus stop, causing wide alarm successful the community. Authorities provided archetypal assistance to 16 radical astatine the scene. Two men were taken to the hospital, 1 of whom required country for cervix and thorax injuries.

The chaotic two-hour incidental ended astatine astir 9:30 p.m. connected Sunday nighttime (local time) erstwhile peculiar constabulary forces stormed the apartment. Officers arrested Mintzas and seized a .30 caliber weapon and ammunition. During the arrest, Mintzas sustained an oculus coiled from breached solid and was taken to the infirmary nether constabulary defender earlier being transported to Burwood Police Station.

No grounds of links with organised transgression oregon coercion for the Greek Australian man

On Monday night, Mintzas was formally charged with the 25 offences, which see attempted murder, amerciable possession of a firearm, shooting successful a nationalist place, and resisting arrest.

He appeared earlier the Burwood Local Court connected Tuesday, October 7, wherever helium was formally denied bail.

Police person stated determination is nary grounds suggesting links to organised crime oregon terrorist groups, nor a past of intelligence wellness problems. Police serviceman Stephen Parry noted that Mintzas is “a 60-year-old antheral with 2 children and has had precise small interaction with the constabulary for the past 20 years.”

According to ABC News, Mintzas is an worker of Sydney Trains. Investigations into the causes and circumstances of the incident, which has shocked the section community, are continuing nether the dedicated Strike Force Cornwood team.