Overview

• Police identified the suspect as 60-year-old Artemios Mintzas, arrested after a tactical entry into a unit on Georges River Road where a .30-calibre rifle was seized.
• Authorities now estimate roughly 50 shots were fired at random over about two hours, damaging vehicles and shopfronts along the shopping strip.
• Paramedics treated 16 people for injuries, and a man in his 50s who was shot underwent surgery and is expected to recover, officials said.
• Mintzas has been charged with 25 offences, including 18 counts of shooting with intent to murder, was refused bail, and is due at Burwood Local Court on Tuesday.
• Police say there are no known links to terrorism or organised crime, the suspect did not hold a firearms licence, and forensics continue to examine the scene where a police car and at least 13 other vehicles were hit.