Man shot dead after opening fire on Sydney police stations

SYDNEY — A gunman has been shot dead after an hourlong shooting spree in western Sydney on Wednesday night in which he opened fire on a residential home and two police stations.

New South Wales Police declared the shooting at a police station “a critical incident,” which left multiple officers with injuries, including one who is being treated in the hospital for a pellet wound to his head.

Police said a number of shots were fired into the front of St. Mary’s Police Station on Wednesday night. Shortly after, the same gunman, armed with a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun, fired a number of shots at police officers at Penrith Police Station.

Police returned fire, fatally injuring the man who died at the scene, New South Wales Police said in a statement overnight.

The two shootings are linked to an earlier incident in which shots were fired into a suburban home in the western Sydney suburb of Marayong, police said.

Local media identified the gunman as 32-year-old bodybuilder Daniel King. Reports said the suburban home belonged to his estranged girlfriend, who is seven months’ pregnant with King’s child.