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A 28-year-old Adelaide woman is in police custody after allegedly evading authorities for more than a month.

Khe Sanh Cox was wanted over a break-in at St Agnes and other serious offences just days after allegedly cutting off her home detention device.

The police manhunt gained more attention than usual, their appeal going viral on social media as a result of Ms Cox sharing her name with a song by famous rock group Cold Chisel.

She was finally caught last night at a petrol station in Waikerie in the state's Riverland region after allegedly driving off in a stolen car after filling up without paying.

"She's made eye contact with one of the girls that has worked here (but) and you could just see her fill up put the pump up and she ran she was gone," service station attendant Ebony Dunn told 9News.

"I was a bit baffled about how far she actually got considering basically the police were up five minutes from her being here."

The stolen Honda drove on the Sturt Highway towards Gawler and then Munno Para.

The police chopper tracked it through the northern suburbs before the car was abandoned on Reordan Drive just after 8pm.

Officers with sniffer dogs searched after Ms Cox and her male passenger allegedly fled before breaking into a house on McCann Place, where a woman was inside.

"She'd been attacked by a police dog I think, so yeah she was pretty irate the screaming went on for about an hour," neighbour Chris Polvari told 9News.

Ms Cox was taken to the Royal Adelaide for treatment.

Police also arrested her 37-year-old alleged accomplice, charging the Mile End man with illegal use of a motor vehicle and hindering police.

He's been granted release on bail.

Ms Cox remains in police custody.

A couple of years ago I tried to get tickets to the Rolling Stones.

"You've got to get up and get online really early," my friend, in the know, told me.

"Day one, when they first go on sale. Sleep in and you'll miss out."

Well I didn't sleep in. I did get up at the crack of dawn and I never got those seats. By the time tickets for the Stones became available, a few days later, the prices had inflated two to three times over. The scalpers had won again.

Come January 2021 and a rock concert is the last thing on my mind.

But I am up early again, 4.45am in fact, and using that old Stones experience. But this time trying to find a ticket to survive, chasing an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccination.

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I became a "vaccination chaser" like millions of others here in California when the state government announced that people 65 and over would be among the first to be given the injection. For once I was happy to be the old bloke in the room. These days call me a senior, I don't care.

So online I went and that is when the frustration started. The city council website invited me to make an appointment. The only problem was every location already had the "FULL" sign out. Obviously a whole lot of other people were up much earlier than me.

OK, change of plan. Some pharmacies were now saying they had it and after three hours of continually putting in my post code and being told again and again "No appointments" I eventually struck gold.

Too good to be true. It is an appointment for me, and one for my wife Shar, at the chemist just 2km from home and I had the email confirmation to prove it.

"Thanks for scheduling an appointment with us! Your appointment is confirmed 21/1/2021 at 3.00 PM.

The pharmacy is in the rear section of a Ralph's supermarket. Strange place, yes, to get a lifesaving jab. But even if I did have to stand next to the fruit and veg and just a few aisles from the butcher to get that shot that would make my life a whole lot safer, I was up for it.

I rang our three children with the good news. We were excited because an immunisation would allow us the opportunity to see the grandchildren more often.

Because our kids have been worried about the chance of bringing the virus into our home, Shar has only been able to see our new granddaughter Gaia, who was born in March, just the once and me twice.

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The rest of the "visits" involved a lot of virtual hugging, waving and blowing kisses via Zoom.

But then, not so fast. Five days later I got another email from the chemist. "Your appointment has been cancelled. We look forward to serving you again."

Not to be beaten we made a plan. "Let's just go anyway and pretend we didn't get the email," Shar said. So, on Thursday the 21^st of January right on time we fronted up at the pharmacy counter.

"We don't have any vaccine, sorry," said the assistant. "Though I can add your name to our vaccination list," he added helpfully. That seemed OK.

"We'll call you when it's time. We only get enough for about ten vaccines a day and just so you know, you have 130 on the list ahead of you."

That sent me straight home and back online. For two days straight, a few hours here and a few hours there, I pressed the same keys over and over again.

The Lincoln Park vaccination site, FULL. Crenshaw Christian Center, FULL. Dodger Stadium site, FULL. And so, it went.

Everyone, it seems, was running into the same problem. The Los Angeles Times got their reporters onto the COVID appointment hunt and came up with the headline: "It's easy peasy to get a vaccine appointment…..in Anchorage, Alaska."

So, you can see the problem and that's when I remembered my Mick and Keith experience. So, day three I was up before dawn and 45 minutes later, success. Even though the end result of all this work would be a jab in the arm with a sharp needle, never had I been so happy to fill out the form and press the send button.

Exactly a week after our unsuccessful visit the chemist Shar and I drove into the sprawling carpark of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball stadium, now converted into America's largest drive-through vaccination clinic.

Up ahead of us were hundreds of cars making their way towards a cluster of tents attended by health workers, all in protective clothing and masks and standing by trolleys carrying the vaccine to be wheeled from car to car.

Coming to a halt we found ourselves in an immunisation production line.

I was glad I planned ahead and wore a short-sleeved shirt. Unlike the man a few cars in front. Solid and well rounded, I would describe him as. He wore a long-sleeved shirt. Wrong, meaning he had to get out of the car strip off to the waist and let it all hang out while he got the shot.

Other than that bit of entertainment it felt like we were waiting in a huge drive in theatre but absent of popcorn and the big screen.

Eventually it was our turn. A nurse on either side of the car came to both windows. "Do you have any allergic reactions? No. Are you on blood thinners? No."

"I think we might be the first Australians you have done," I told her. "Wow, so cool," she said and with that in went the needle.

Neither of us felt a thing. A quick thankyou and they rolled the trolly on to the next car.

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At that point, probably wisely, with hundreds of cars with freshly injected drivers ready to go we were told we had to wait 20 minutes. Obviously, they didn't want to let loose the one-off feinting type who possibly could cause a mass pile up before we hit the exits.

We had a few moments of elation before realising, "Wait a minute, we're only half done." True. With the Moderna shot we need to get a booster in a month's time.

"How do we get the second injection?" Shar called to the nurse who was already driving a needle into another arm in the car behind. "I think they will email you."

That sounded ominous but we live in hope.

I checked later and discovered on our day at Dodger Stadium more than 7,700 other people had got their free shot in the arm over 15 hours.

It has been a rough start to the "Vaccinate America" campaign. Complaints continue to pour in in every state about the inability to get an appointment. President Biden is promising to be much more involved than his predecessor and work full time to increase the accessibility of the vaccine to everyone. He has set a goal of 100 million vaccinated in his first 100 days in office.

But I wonder how my own elderly mother would have got the vaccination. Would she have had the computer skills (or even the computer) to be able to break through, persevere and eventually get an appointment? I already know the answer to that. No. And so it must be for millions of the over 65's.

So, for the moment this Australian feels lucky, no complaints, seeing I am one of just 20 million in the US so far to get the first dose of the vaccine.

Twenty million done, another 300 million to go.

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested after a savage attack on a teenager in Adelaide's CBD.

9News has obtained exclusive vision of the moment a teenager was attacked by a group about 3am today as he sat near the tram station on North Terrace.

The footage shows him being dealt several blows, with two seen kicking him in the head.

He his hit over the head with a metal scooter as he tries to defend himself.

By the time police arrived the group had fled.

Officers managed to run down a 13-year-old, who was arrested and has since been charged.

The victim is yet to come forward to police.

Police have urged anyone who may have witnessed the assault to come forward.

A Queensland mother is fighting to keep juvenile offenders in police custody for longer after her son was allegedly stabbed to death by two teenagers out on bail.

Michelle Liddle's son Angus Beaumont was stabbed to death allegedly by two 14-year-olds out on bail for similar offences.

"I wanted to know if at any point Angus had…," Ms Liddle tells 9News before being overcome with emotion.

"If he'd breathed on the way to hospital, anything."

It's the same system that let down Queensland couple Kate Leadbetter and Matty Field and their unborn son Miles.

All three were killed by an allegedly stolen car. A teenage boy has been charged with two counts of murder.

"It's a failure because the juveniles who did the crime were on bail and once you become a reoffender bail should not be granted," Ben Beaumont, Angus' dad, told 9News.

Last year the Youth Justice Act was amended to legislate that "children who are an unacceptable risk to the safety of the community must not be granted bail and will be kept in custody".

People are now questioning what exactly determines an unacceptable risk and demanding tougher changes.

"We need to go back and have a look at the laws and see whether we can come up with any other strategies and initiatives," Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll told media.

Police Minister Mark Ryan did not commit with the same conviction.

"If you adopted a view that every young person who steals a KitKat goes to jail for 25 years, then you actually criminalise those kids and they become entrenched in the criminal justice system," Mr Ryan said.

But the Beaumonts won't stop fighting for justice for their son.

"Up to 10 years for a life crime is disgusting no matter who you are. If you do a life crime it should be a life sentence," Mr Beaumont said.

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A man killed in what police have described as a targeted shooting in Sydney's south has been identified as father-to-be Mustafa Naaman.

The 29-year-old was shot alongside another man as they climbed into their Mercedes on Macmahon Street in Hurstville about 11pm on Saturday.

On the crowded street, family and friends pleaded with Mr Naaman to hang on.

"Is he moving cuz? Yeah he's breathing," one man can be heard saying in footage from after the shooting.

"Mustafa, you're going to make it," another voice can be heard saying.

"Breathe brother, breathe," one person says.

Just hours earlier, a boxing match between prominent Sydney fighter Billy Dib and opponent Joey Baylon had taken place at the nearby Hurstville Civic Centre.

The two men were getting into their Mercedes on Macmahon Street when they were "ambushed by a number of males", Detective Superintendent Tony Cook said.

A number of shots were fired, killing Mr Naaman and injuring a 23-year-old.

But by the time emergency services had arrived, the offenders had fled.

Officers found the Mercedes stopped nearby, with the two wounded men inside.

The pair were treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to hospital. Naaman died from his injuries a short time later.

The 23-year-old man remains in hospital in a stable condition.

"Someone was saying to (Naaman) 'you are going to see your son, you're going to see your son," one witness who asked to remain anonymous told 9News.

The same witness described it as though people were walking through the crowd opening fire.

"We just all hid behind cars and stuff and we all dived to the ground and when the car pulled up and the doors opened we realised that people had been shot in the car," he said.

A crime scene has been established, which is being investigated by specialist forensic officers.

"This, I'm quite confident, was a targeted attack," Detective Superintendent Cook told this afternoon's press conference.

"We have a significant body of police now working towards this to bring it to the courts."

Both the dead man and his injured associate were known to police – a matter that forms "part of (police) inquiries".

However, the shooting hasn't been linked to any previous police matters at this stage.

Officers were in contact with the families of the victims, whose identities have yet to be revealed.

Detective Superintendent Cook urged anyone who was at the scene at the time or who captured mobile phone or dashcam footage to hand it over to police.

"If you don't come forward now, we will come to you," he said.

The Homicide Squad is assisting officers with the investigation.

Anyone who witnessed the incident or has dashcam footage that may assist investigators is urged to contact St George Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

A Victorian family has opened up about their indescribable grief after the death of father Duncan Craw while snorkelling in South Australia.

Mr Craw had been on a day out with his family at Port MacDonnell in South Australia's lower south-east about 5pm last Thursday when his wife Taylia lost sight of him in the water.

A photo of Mr Craw's son, Levi, standing in the water has inadvertently become the tragic final time the boy will be pictured with his dad, who can be seen swimming some distance behind him shortly before he disappeared.

A torn wetsuit initially led authorities to believe the 32-year-old had been attacked by a great white shark that had been spotted in the area.

"The last week has been extremely traumatic for all of us but having Levi to look at, it's just giving us that little bit of strength to keep moving forward," Mr Craw's brother-in-law Bret Trigg told 9News.

It's believed Mr Craw suffered a fatal medical episode before being taken by a shark.

"One thing that brings us comfort is to know that Duncan was already at peace," Mr Trigg said.

At Mr Craw's favourite watering hole, friends and family gathered today to remember the cricket obsessed, fun loving community leader.

"He's irreplaceable. We'll keep on going. He'll always be remembered," Sam Monk, one of Mr Craw's colleagues, told 9News.

While he has been laid to rest today, Mr Craw's family will continue to be supported by the community.

His former colleagues will use his tractor to keep his contracting business going, which will provide an income for his wife and young son.

"Now, just look after his family and young Levi especially, he's a fantastic kid and Duncan would want him still doing everything that he used to do," Mr Monk said.

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