OFF THE WIRE
POLICE are investigating links between outlaw motorcycle gxxgs and the shooting of a young man in front of his horrified mother which shattered the peace of a suburban street on the Gold Coast.A 25-year-old man was hit in the shoulder from a shotgun blast in the middle of Cedarwood Cres at Robina while his mother screamed in terror on Saturday night.
Neighbouring children were playing in a garage just metres away as three shots were fired in the middle of the narrow street about 10.15pm on Saturday.
As well as hitting the young man, shotgun pellets peppered a parked car and the front wall of a house across the road.
He was rushed to Gold Coast Hospital where he was in a stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries yesterday.
It is believed one of the occupants living at the scene of the shooting has links to the notorious Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gxxg.
Police were quickly on the scene and the city's new police helicopter spent two hours hovering over the area searching for the culprit but they were unable to locate them.
Forensic crime officers spent much of yesterday morning at the scene but by late yesterday, no arrests had been made.
Neighbours yesterday declined to talk at length to The Courier-Mail.
"We're still pretty traumatised," said a resident.
A woman who lived farther down the street did not wish to be named but spoke of hearing shot-like "explosions".
"I had just fallen asleep in front of the television and then I heard them (the shots)," she said. "They were extremely loud and a woman was just screaming her head off.
"I told my sister there was a shoot-out going on in the street and to get away from the windows."
She said the street again fell eerily silent afterwards.
"There was no sound. No car roaring off, or footsteps running down the road, it just went really quiet," she said.
"The woman was still standing in the street saying 'my son's been shot'."
She said violent crime was unheard of in Cedarwood Cres.
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