{"id":76270,"date":"2026-02-17T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/former-nrl-star-matt-utai-shot-in-alleged-brazen-ambush-outside-home-in-western-sydney\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:00:02","slug":"former-nrl-star-matt-utai-shot-in-alleged-brazen-ambush-outside-home-in-western-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/former-nrl-star-matt-utai-shot-in-alleged-brazen-ambush-outside-home-in-western-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NRL star Matt Utai shot in alleged \u2018brazen ambush\u2019 outside home in western Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1493347bace292e5bedb431ebf260e4addf84d02\/0_0_2555_2044\/master\/2555.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=48127a80b3429eefac513f0ae05edd61\" alt=\"Former NRL star Matt Utai shot in alleged \u2018brazen ambush\u2019 outside home in western Sydney\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Former NRL star Matt Utai shot in alleged \u2018brazen ambush\u2019 outside home in western Sydney<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Premiership-winning Canterbury winger hit in stomach and leg in Greenacre shootingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer NRL star Matt Utai is in hospital fighting for his life after being shot multiple times on his front lawn, what police are treating as an ambush attack with no clear motive.The 2004 premiership-winning Canterbury winger was left with serious leg wounds after the attack in Greenacre, in western Sydney, at about 6am on Tuesday. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/matt-utai-shot-sydney-former-nrl-player-greenacre-ntwnfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Former NRL star Matt Utai shot in alleged \u2018brazen ambush\u2019 outside home in western Sydney Premiership-winning Canterbury winger hit in stomach and leg in Greenacre shootingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer NRL star Matt Utai is in hospital fighting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}