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Man fatally shot - Punchbowl

NSW Police·

Where: Rossmore Avenue, Punchbowl, the street the release names · See the street on the map

Man fatally shot - Punchbowl
Punchbowl, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

Police are currently at the scene of a public place shooting where a man has been fatally shot in south west Sydney.

About 5.50pm today (Wednesday 9 September 2026) emergency services responded to reports of a man being shot in the carpark of a community centre in Rossmore Avenue, Punchbowl.

NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the man but he died at the scene.

Officers from Campsie Police Area Command have established a crime scene.

Police have been informed that a vehicle was seen driving away from the location after the incident.

Anyone with information about the matter – or was in the area at the time with any available dashcam/mobile phone footage – is urged to contact Campsie Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au . Information is managed on a confidential basis. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.

— NSW Police
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Crime in the Canterbury-Bankstown council area

Canterbury-Bankstown is a council area in New South Wales with about 389,687 residents. It has a Crime Score 36 out of 100 (low), 269th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by robbery (70th percentile), assault (38th percentile), homicide (55th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 38.

Violent
949 per 100k
Property
1,947 per 100k
Break-ins
152 per 100k
Theft
762 per 100k

See the full Canterbury-Bankstown crime profile

2016-17: 839 per 100,0002017-18: 758 per 100,0002018-19: 736 per 100,0002019-20: 771 per 100,0002020-21: 827 per 100,0002021-22: 723 per 100,0002022-23: 879 per 100,0002023-24: 996 per 100,0002024-25: 954 per 100,0002025-26: 949 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Canterbury-Bankstown, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 13% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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