Two people have been charged after a woman was hospitalised with gunshot wounds in Maitland overnight.
About 11.40pm yesterday (Wednesday 1 July 2026), police received a report that a woman had presented to hospital with gunshot injuries.
Officers attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police District attended and were told the woman – aged 31 – was at a home on Alliance Street, East Maitland, when an argument began between her and the residents.
Police will allege one of the residents – a man aged 55 – shot the woman with what was described as being a shortened shotgun before she ran from the property.
She was then taken by car to Maitland Hospital before being transferred to John Hunter Hospital for further treatment of injuries to her head, neck and shoulder. Police have been told none of her injuries are considered life threatening.
Following inquiries, police attended the home on Alliance Street, where they arrested the 55-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman and established a crime scene.
The pair were taken to Maitland Police Station where they were each charged with shoot with intent to murder.
They were refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 2 today (Thursday 2 July 2026).
