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One dead after shooting at house in Perth suburb of Bateman

One person is dead after a shooting incident at a house in Bateman on Friday night.

A woman aged in her 50s was found dead when emergency services arrived at a house on Scouler Way, after reports of shots being fired at about 7pm.

A man aged in his 60s was critically injured with a head wound and he remains in Royal Perth Hospital under police guard.

Kenneth Cheok was walking his dog on Scouler Way at about 6.30pm when he said a French woman frantically came up to him asking for help. She was making a trigger motion, signalling someone had been shot, he said.

Mr Cheok called triple-zero and said emergency services were at the scene within four minutes.

He said when he got closer to the home in question he saw a man slumped against the fence with a rifle slung across him. Mr Cheok said the man was breathing heavily and had a massive wound to his head.

He then saw a woman lying out the front of the home in a pool of blood.

“It was quite a traumatic experience. I’m fine, you just don’t see these things every day,” Mr Cheok said.

Cheryl Coates who lives about four houses away said she didn’t hear any shots last night, but smelt metallic smoke, which she initially thought was due to a freeway crash, and then saw a rush of emergency services arrive in her street.

She said the couple who lived at the property kept to themselves, and believed the man had moved out about a month ago as she had seen removalists.

“He was a roofie ... he would be around 70, I never met her but they had a beautiful little white dog,” she said.

“It’s really sad, they never mixed with any of the neighbours.”

A heavy police presence remains at the normally quiet street, which has been cordoned off, and forensic officers are also at the scene.

A group of three women, one visibly in tears, laid a bunch of flowers at the police tape.

Originally published as Woman dead, man injured in shooting