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Speaker 1: Shots fired in a house at deg glen OsmAnd on Eleanor Terrace. We've learned a bit more about this story in the last couple of hours. Jade Roberin stunts some remarkable reporting at the scene, including a remarkable video that you need to look at as we speak on the Facebook and YouTube livestream. Let's check in with Jade again that morning here.
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Speaker 2: Jade, Good morning, guys, thank you big development on this story. I'm on the scene here at Eleanor Terrace and glen Osmond of this drive by shooting that occurred just after midnight. Now detectives have arrived back on scene and police are here door knocking neighbors for information. The area has now been taped off. Now I can tell you that this is the same home where there was a six hour siege at the same house on the twentieth September last year, which ended with a man being tasered and arrested. Now the man is forty seven year old Todd Johnson, who was charged with aggravated serious criminal trespass, aggravated assault, threatening to kill or in danger life, and damaging property. Court hearing heard that he was suffering from a psychotic episode at the time. But mister Johnson's home which was targeted last night, it's quite a mess. You can see on the Facebook live stream that it is really quite messy out here. The balcony is a glass balustrade and as you can see on the food Land live stream, the glass is just shattered, presumably from a bullet, and it's strown all over the ground and on top of the Mercedes Bends parked here in the driveway. There's also a couple of bullet holes that you can see in the wall. Now, detectives have tried ringing the doorbell, but there's no one answering, and I've been told that mister Johnson isn't cooperating with police at this stage. It's a beautiful, leafy, quiet street here, very peaceful, so no doubt last night's events would have really shaken and frightened neighbors. But as I mentioned from that last story that did occur in September, it is something that they seem to be quite used to. I had a chat with one of the neighbors, Linda Botha, a short time ago. Linda, you lift three houses down? What did you hear last night?
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Speaker 3: I was awoken by what I thought at first was fireworks, loud noises. Yeah, and then my dog started barking. And then when you see the cops by your front door, you know, you know it wasn't fireworks. Yeah, gunshots.
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Speaker 2: Have they told you what happened?
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Speaker 3: They said there were gunshots. They didn't tell me the extent of what had happened. I learned that this morning, and that shocked me. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: How scary is that? You've got two small children?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Are you safe in your house? Am I safe in my house?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I don't. Yeah, it's very uncomfortable.
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Speaker 2: It's not the first time something has happened to this residence. At what point
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is enough enough the.
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Speaker 3: Point where there's gunshots fired that could have hit your house. I think that's beyond the point. Am I wrong? Why are we having gun violence in this country?
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Speaker 2: In September there was a siege. Do you know much about this person that lives in this property?
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Speaker 3: No? Nothing much. We don't see him about, We don't see any family, a very little movement.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: If you could have a word with the police for the safety of your home, your family, what do you want to happen?
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Speaker 3: Do your jobs? If there's firearms in the street, in this suburb. Please remove it.
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Speaker 4: It shouldn't be.
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Speaker 3: Where will that lead?
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Speaker 1: No remarkable interview?
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Speaker 4: Jade.
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Speaker 1: Is there still a police presence at the scene, Yes.
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Speaker 2: There is, so police are door knocking neighbors as we speak, trying to find CCTV vision. As I mentioned, there is a house across the road that's been renovated at the moment, and that there is a sign out the front that says there's twenty four hours surveill so hopefully they can find some vision from that. Detectives, as I mentioned, they are back on the scene this morning. They're trying to make contact with the gentleman and we don't know whether he's inside or not. There is no movement at the house, so there is a light on in the in the driveway, but certainly you can't see any movement inside the home. But yes, a heavy police presence. When I arrived at the scene just after six am this morning, you could walk right up to the house that has now been taped off. So I would imagine that police will be on the scene for quite a few hours yet. But yeah, very very very awful set of circumstances that have happened for the neighbors We've been talking to neighbors. A lot of them don't want to speak on camera or on radio because they are frightened. It is this quiet, beautiful, leafy suburb where it seems like neighbors do know each other. You know, they're walking down walking their dogs early this morning, going into each other's homes, having a bit of a chat, and I could just imagine them to say, not again, why is this happening again? You know, hopefully this time is the last time and something, you know, pretty drastic it happens.
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Speaker 4: Jaye, Do we know mister Johnson? Isn't it you're talking about having Johnson? Do we know is mister Johnson still still inside the house that we don't know?
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Speaker 2: No, we're not sure that the police, the detectives have been ringing the doorbell a couple of times. No one is answering. They've got the monitor out the front. There has been absolutely no movement. Look, I would presume with them constantly knocking on the door and trying to make contact that they believe that he is inside. But there is quite a lot of glass you can see certain parts of the home, but we certainly haven't seen any movement inside. So yeah, Dave, not one hundred percent sure whether the gentleman's inside or not.
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Speaker 4: Excellent reporting, Jade first on the scene, first vision, remarkable.
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Speaker 1: Do you feel for that neighbor, Yeah, and you feel for all those neighbors who don't want to totally understand it. But what an insight that provided, where there's been repeated incidents and now you're working up in the night by gunshots in your street.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 1: There's no way to live. As someone said on the it was Jane on the Police Homecare text line, just said, you just you don't know what's who's living next to you do sometimes sometimes you do, but sometimes in your street you don't know