Aussie boxing champ’s home is shot up in frightening drive-by while 10 family members including a BABY were sleeping inside – as his dad describes hearing tyres screeching at 4AM
- Up to five bullets fired into boxer’s Brisbane home before 7am on Thursday
- Huni’s manager said 10 people were inside at the time, including a baby
- Fighter’s father heard screeching tyres at 4am outside the home, manager said
Australian heavyweight boxing champion Justis Huni’s home has been shot up in a drive-by attack in southern Brisbane.
Police are investigating the shooting, in which up to five bullets were fired into the 23-year-old’s home on Goorong Street in Sunnybank Hills, before 7am on Thursday.
No one was hurt by the hail of gunfire, but it is understood there were 10 people home at the time of the attack.
Huni and his father Rocki (left) outside the family home after it was riddled with bullets in a drive-by attack on Thursday morning
The heavyweight (right) is best known for beating NRL star turned boxer Paul Gallen in their 2021 bout
A police officer is seen collecting evidence outside Huni’s Brisbane home
‘Obviously if you get your house shot up, you’re going to be shocked,’ Huni said on Thursday.
‘The whole household was waking up and we just checked to see if everyone was alright.’
The fighter’s father, Rocki, said the family felt ‘lucky to be alive’ and revealed his wife would usually have been up at the time of the attack.
‘The scary thing is one of the bullets was where my wife sits to feed our grandchild,’ he told Fox Sports.
‘No one was injured, thankfully, but we are all pretty shaken.’
‘Justis was at home and there were up to 10 family and relatives in the house,…
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