Police charge a third person over the shooting death of Joshua Macdonald in Merrylands, in Sydney’s west. Macdonald is killed in a home earlier this month, and police say the shooting is not aimed at him.
According to police statements reported by both outlets, the incident is treated as a case of mistaken identity. The two sources agree that prosecutors allege the person charged is linked to the offence, but they do not describe the specific circumstances of the charge in detail beyond the mistaken-identity claim. The reporting focuses on the progression of charges rather than the underlying motive or the course of the investigation.
Both articles frame the case around police assertions that Macdonald was not the intended target, indicating the investigation centres on identifying the original target and the events that led to the fatal shooting.
