UPDATE: Four young children and four adults were inside a house that was targeted in a pre-dawn drive-by shooting in Glenroy.
The occupants of the weatherboard cottage in Gowrie Street, Glenroy, say the gunmen drove past shortly before 4am on Friday and fired two bullets through their front-room window.
There were two men, two women and four children, aged as young as three, inside. No one was injured.
One of the male occupants said he did not know who the gunmen might have been.
“They just shot through the window … we don’t know,” he said.
Ali, who did not want his surname used, identified himself as the landlord and arrived about 8.30am to help clean up shattered glass.
He said he also found a small parcel wrapped in toilet paper and masking tape in the letterbox on Friday morning.
Ali said shootings were common around Glenroy and the northern suburbs.
“This is Glenroy … this is the area you live in,” he said.
Next-door neighbour Anne Bartolo, 66, said she woke to the loud bang of the first gunshot.
“I looked out and couldn’t see anything. Then I heard another shot after that and quickly closed the window,” she said.
“I’m lucky I didn’t go outside.”
Ms Bartolo, who has lived in the street for 48 years, said the occupants of the house moved in six months ago, and appeared troubled.
“Police have attended regularly and I’ve heard banging on the door, banging on the windows,” she said.
Crime scene investigators arrived at the house at 9am.
Glenroy and surrounding suburbs have had a wave of violence allegedly connected to feuds between Middle East crime gang families, including house-bombings and numerous drive-by shootings in recent years.
Anyone with information is asked to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
