About 3pm on Tuesday 9 June, a man walked up to a ute parked in a driveway on Hamilton Road, Fairfield West, and pointed a handgun at the 44-year-old sitting inside. Then he ran. Nobody was physically hurt. Four months later Taskforce Falcon has charged a 19-year-old with attempted murder charges over it.

And here's the thing. Police aren't saying he was the gunman. What they are alleging he did is the part that should worry you more.