'Tragic': arrests after boy, 11, shot in face and neck

The West Australian Max Aldred

21 Sept 2026 18:33 AEST Summary

Changed after publishing · 1 edit

21 Sept 2026 21:32 AEST the headline was changed: 'Tragic': arrests after boy, 11, shot in ~~the~~ face and neck~~inside a home~~

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From the report

A young boy is in a serious condition after being shot in the face and neck inside a home.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 12.6 mundaneloaded

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

boy2face2neck2shot2

Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 38.2 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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How outlets headlined it

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The West Australian 'Tragic': arrests after boy, 11, shot in face and neck plain
ABC News Man charged after boy shot in face and neck in Sydney home plain
7NEWS Boy, 11, seriously injured after being shot in face and neck at Norwest home in northwest Sydney plain
The West Australian Chris Minns issues gun warning after 11-year-old boy shot in face and neck at Norwest apartment in Sydney plain

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The West Australian. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
The West Australianas they published this story	12.6	1	42	0	38.2
ABC News	7.1	2	54	-0.1	23.7
7NEWS	8.3	1	25	-0.5	28.4

Also reported by

12 Australian outlets reported this story. These are the ones we do not read; their headlines are matched to this one automatically, so an occasional match may be a different story.

Boy , 11 , shot in the face and neck inside a home dailyliberal.com.au
Boy , 11 , shot in the face and neck inside a home standard.net.au
Tragic : arrests after boy , 11 , shot in face and neck wellingtontimes.com.au
Tragic : arrests after boy , 11 , shot in face and neck irrigator.com.au
Tragic : arrests after boy , 11 , shot in face and neck ulladullatimes.com.au
Tragic : arrests after boy , 11 , shot in face and neck lithgowmercury.com.au
Tragic : arrests after boy , 11 , shot in face and neck centralwesterndaily.com.au
Tragic : arrests after boy , 11 , shot in face and neck illawarramercury.com.au
Tragic : arrests after boy , 11 , shot in face and neck singletonargus.com.au

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The same event elsewhere

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ABC News Man charged after boy shot in face and neck in Sydney home Niral 7.1 political 0 7NEWS Boy, 11, seriously injured after being shot in face and neck at Norwest home in northwest Sydney Niral 8.3 political 0 The West Australian Chris Minns issues gun warning after 11-year-old boy shot in face and neck at Norwest apartment in Sydney Niral 4.2 political 0