A 22-year-old man is fighting for his life after being dropped off at Lake Macquarie Private Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest on Thursday night.
Emergency services were called to the Gateshead hospital around 7:50 PM after reports the man had “presented” with the injury. Paramedics and Lake Macquarie police attended the scene before transferring him to John Hunter Hospital in critical condition.
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