NSW: Teen charged with shooting dead another teen
07 Dec 2008 12:04 PM
SYDNEY, Dec 7 AAP - A 14-year-old boy made a "frantic" triple 0 call to police after his school friend was fatally shot near Sydney, police say.
Paramedics tried desperately to save the boy, also aged 14, after receiving a call to the Orangeville house in the city's south-west about 10.15pm (AEDT) on Saturday.
The boy died at the scene.
The other 14-year old was arrested at the premises and taken to Camden police station where, after declining to make a statement, he was charged with murder.
"The young person under legal advice did not want to speak and did not want to provide a statement to the police, which is his right," Superintendent Ian Foscholo told reporters in Camden on Sunday.
"And so consequently the police have got to go down a particular line of inquiry, which they did and that resulted in the murder charge."
A firearm was seized from the crime scene, but police wouldn't say what model it was or who owned it.
The boy was conditionally bailed to report at Campbelltown Children's Court on January 5.
