Matt Utai Shot!

[Graham]

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Canterbury Bulldogs premiership hero Matt Utai has been hospitalised after being shot twice in a drive-by attack in Western Sydney. 

The Daily Telegraph reported the ex-Bulldogs player was gunned down in an early-morning attack.

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[Graham]

Former NRL star Matt Utai is in a "critical condition" after being shot multiple times outside his home in Sydney, Australia.

New South Wales police confirmed Utai, 44, sustained a "gunshot to his lower leg and his shoulder, upper chest area" during a drive-by shooting in south-west Sydney suburb Greenacre.

Superintendent Rodney Hart added a 44-year-old was in a "serious but stable condition" after undergoing surgery.

"This was definitely targeted," Supt Hart said.

"It's a brazen ambush. Whether the victim was the intended target or it was somebody that he knows or associates with or is related to will all form part of the investigation."

Police said shots were fired from a white SUV, which was later found burned out in nearby Wiley Park.

 

Police are treating it as a “targeted” attack but multiple reports suggest Utai himself may not have been the intended target, with police investigating possible links of a family member — believed to be Utai’s son — to organised crime.

Edited February 17 by Graham

[Graham]

A man and a 15-year-old boy have been charged over the shooting of former NRL winger Matt Utai on Tuesday in Sydney's west.

Mr Utai was shot in the leg and shoulder, with police believing it was an attack targeting his son Iziah Utai.

Police have briefly spoken to Matt Utai who remains in hospital.

Edited February 27 by Graham