TWO SHOOTINGS in Nambucca Heads, a 10-person brawl and the deliberate burning down of a house in Bowraville are believed to be linked.
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Police believe the incidents were as a result of long standing hostilities between two small groups.
Mid North Coast Strike Force Clavering detectives have renewed their appeal to the public for information about the incidents.
During the evening of October 28, a firearm was discharged into a home in Palmer St, Nambucca Heads.
Police investigations revealed the firearm, believed to be a .22 calibre, was fired through the front window of the residence. No one was injured as a result of the shooting.
In a second incident on November 6 a man was shot outside a Raleigh St, Nambucca Heads address. A 21-year-old man sustained a significant gunshot injury to his stomach by what police believe to be a .22 calibre firearm. The man underwent surgery at Coffs Harbour Base Hospital as a result.
Shortly following the Raleigh St shooting police seized a Blue Mitsubishi Magna from a residence in Bowraville which they believe was used in the commission of both offences. The vehicle has been forensically examined and a quantity of ammunition located.
Police believe that a physical confrontation and the deliberate burning of a house in Gumbangirr Rd, Bowraville on the evening of November 18 was a further continuation of those hostilities.
A 35-year-old female and a 26-year-old male from Nambucca Heads have both been charged with malicious damage by fire in relation to that incident.
A 32-year-old male and a 28-year-old female, also of Bowraville, were arrested at Grafton on November 29 have been charged with affray in respect of the confrontation on Gumbangirr Rd.
