Detectives from the Armed Crime Squad have charged a man with 21 offences following a non-fatal shooting in Whittington last week.
Emergency services were called to Freesia Court where it is alleged a man had sustained a gunshot wound about 5.40pm on Wednesday, 22 March.
A 55-year-old Whittington man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police arrested a 29-year-old man on Hollows Court in Grovedale on Monday afternoon.
The man, of no fixed address, was charged with 21 offences:
- Aggravated burglary with firearm (to assault)
- Aggravated burglary with firearm (to steal)
- Attempted armed robbery
- Make threats to kill
- Intentionally causing serious injury
- Recklessly causing serious injury
- Intentionally causing injury
- Recklessly causing injury
- Reckless conduct endanger life
- Prohibited person using a firearm
- Carry loaded firearm in a populous place
- Theft of motor vehicle
- Criminal damage
- Traffick Methylamphetamine
- Possess Methylamphetamine
- Prohibited person possessing a firearm
- Possessing loaded firearm in public place
- Possessing ammunition without licence
- Possessing prohibited weapon
He's been remanded and will next appear at Geelong Magistrates' Court on 4 July 2023.
