NSW: Gunfire in Sydney's east

Sydney Morning Herald

Edmund Tadros

August 6, 2007 - 8:20AM

A group of armed men have fired a number of shots and assaulted three people at an area in Sydney's east popular with car hoons ...

"There are cars and hoons driving by with loud and thumping music at night," said local resident Mary-Lynne Taylor. "It's always at The Loop, there's not much supervision there."

Another resident said police would often clear the area of car hoons but they would return within 10 minutes of the officers leaving.

"We have a lot of the teenage hoons coming down here," she said. "I'm surprised I didn't hear anything."

She said had seen up to 60 cars preparing to do their dragging on Anzac Parade around The Loop on some weekend evenings.

"Every Saturday and Sunday night it will be like Pitt Street here," she said.

The area is known to be a popular spot with "car enthusiasts", a police spokeswoman said.

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