Neighbour reveals he found Meadow Springs assault victim in pool of blood - just metres from sleeping infant - as police hunt gang behind Mandurah crime spree

A witness to a Mandurah assault has described discovering a man face down in a pool of blood, while a baby slept in a nearby room. Police are currently hunting a gang of up to four men who went on an armed rampage south of Perth overnight, breaking into homes and leaving two men in hospital. One victim was a resident at a home on Killarny Retreat in Meadow Springs. A neighbour of the man, aged in his 30s, described finding him face down in a pool of blood, just metres from a sleeping infant. The witness and his wife are believed to be the first people on the scene after the break-in. “[My] wife went for a walk down to where there were cars parked near the bushes. We couldn’t see nothing. We heard some shouting,” he said. The man said they saw a man run out from the house with a 1.5 metre bat and get into the passenger street of a sedan, which “shot off” with no lights on. “My wife ran over to see if they were alright,” he said. “When she got to the house the door was all smashed in. Then she noticed that the husband was laying on the floor. She told me to get an ambulance. “Then I ran over and when I went in he was lying on the floor with a laceration to his left arm. “It looked like he’d been stabbed, but I believe it was an axe or a tomahawk that he was hit with. “I put a towel on his arm to make sure that he was okay. He had a big welt on his arm, he’d already been hit with a bat.” The neighbours said that when the paramedics brought the man out he had bruising across his belly where he’d been hit with a bat. “All his ribs were bruised. His wife was a bit dazed. She kept giving mixed stories about what happened,” he said. The witness said the victim’s wife “seemed alright” apart from a “few bumps and scrapes”. “He was laying down on the floor with his arms above his head and there was blood coming from his arm,” he said. “He was near the back door. We didn't move him because we weren't sure what they'd done to him. We just waited till the paramedics came and let them deal with it.” The witness said he didn’t hear a gunshot, but did hear the door being kicked in. The neighbour said a baby boy was sleeping in a bedroom and his mother drove off with him. Neighbours on Steerforth Drive in Coodanup, where a similar break-in occurred earlier in the evening - leaving a man in his 40s with critical injurie - described a similar scene, with witnesses hearing fighting followed by one or two shotgun blasts. They believe a man and woman came out of the house and got into a 4WD. The owner is believed to be fairly new to the area. Mandurah Detectives, Regional Operations Group and forensic specialists are currently investigating three linked incidents that played out between 7.15 and 10.30 Monday night - the third being a phone box which was shot at in Dudley Park.