WA news LIVE: Charges laid over Geraldton shooting

A man has been charged over a shooting that left another man in hospital and sparked a manhunt in WA’s Mid West yesterday.

Five people were arrested after Geraldton man Ashley Wayne Cameron was shot in the leg in the early hours of Wednesday.

Officers rushed to the scene in Moonyoonooka, about 12 kilometres outside the regional city’s town centre, about 1am, arriving to find Cameron with a wound to his leg.

Later that morning, police arrested five people Hart Street in Utakarra.

On Thursday morning, a WA Police spokesperson said a 30-year-old man from the Geraldton suburb of Wonthella had been charged with unlawful act or omission with intent to harm, and wilfully destroy evidence.

He is due to face Geraldton Magistrates Court on Thursday.