overnight.
Emergency services were called to the Bar Beach carpark on Memorial Drive about 11.40pm (Wednesday 23 April 2025), and found a man with a gunshot wound.
NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the man, but he died at the scene.
A crime scene has been established by officers attached to Newcastle City Police District.
Police have been told a group of people were fighting in the car park when a white SUV drove up and a man armed with a firearm got out, fired, and left in the vehicle.
The victim has yet to be formally identified but was believed to be aged 18.
An investigation is now underway involving detectives from Newcastle, assisted by the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad.