00:00An innocent family of five were asleep inside their Maryland's home when multiple shots
00:07were fired through the front of their house in the early hours of this morning.
00:12A woman aged in her 30s and her four young children were thankfully not injured in this
00:18suspected drive-by shooting, but it's understood the bullets came incredibly close.
00:24Officers say the family were not the intended target of this attack.
00:27Instead, police believe this was a possible hit on a person who had moved out of that
00:32home just months earlier.
00:34It's understood the previous occupant is known to police.
00:38Detectives have obtained CCTV footage of the incident and say they are hunting two men
00:44and that a rifle was used to carry out the shooting.
00:47The family are now receiving support from authorities.
00:50The family are very shaken as you'd expect.
00:53A short time later, police were called to reports of a car fire in South Granville.
01:04There, they found three vehicles alight.
01:08Officers say one of those vehicles was the getaway car and had been stolen.
01:13The two men were later seen on foot on Chiswick Road heading into bushland, but police say
01:18they have so far been unable to locate them.
01:21The stolen vehicle has been taken away for forensic testing.
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