In the quiet hours before dawn on September 1st, a young university student named Marco Tapia was shot dead inside his family home in Glen Alpine, Sydney — killed not for who he was, but because someone had the wrong address. Two teenage boys, aged fourteen and sixteen, both still enrolled in school, now face murder charges for their supporting roles in what police describe as an organised crime operation, raising ancient and unresolved questions about how the young are drawn into violence they may barely understand. Their alleged involvement — staging cars, moving gunmen, supplying a weapon,
Two teenage boys charged in mistaken-identity murder of Sydney student
Marco Tapia, 23, was fatally shot inside his family home; his parents and sister were present during the attack.