00:00It's around midday today when police say a brazen daylight shooting was carried out here in Blacktown.
00:10A man in his early 20s was shot multiple times.
00:14He sustained gunshot wounds to his face, his neck and his leg.
00:19Paramedics rushed to the scene but he couldn't be revived and he was declared dead at the scene.
00:24He was shot out the front of a home here in Blacktown and police say they actually heard the bullets ring out.
00:31That's why they were so quick to respond and found a Mazda utility they believed was involved in this shooting and quickly started a pursuit.
00:40After around five minutes that black ute actually crashed into parked cars just behind me and two men were seen fleeing that vehicle.
00:49Police then tackled the two men to the ground and they have since been taken into custody.
00:54Police have seized two firearms so far as part of this investigation.
00:59Public place shooting and all shootings that police take very serious is one of our number one priorities.
01:04Police will do whatever it takes to end that violence.
01:08In this circumstance we see some excellent work by the police and both alleged offenders were arrested a very short time after the incident.
01:15The two people arrested, one of them is a teenager, the other is aged in their 20s.
01:20Police say all three men who were involved in this including the victim who was in his early 20s are known to police but it's too early to say whether this has any links whatsoever to organised crime.
01:33Some witnesses we spoke to say they heard the bullets ring out, they heard around five bullets were shot and then they saw the police tackle these two suspects as they fled the car jumping over fences and tackling them to the ground.
01:48They're currently at a local police station and are yet to be charged.
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