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The incident took place on 22 July, 2019, in Adelaide.
At around 9.30am that day, Dimitri fired a gun through the front window of his family’s Lockleys home, hitting his brother in the chest and abdomen, causing an injury that required emergency surgery.
Mr Gatis, who has spent 18 months behind bars since the incident took place, was initially questioned by police and left the family home with one of his uncles.
Several hours later, supported by family members, the 22-year-old handed himself into the police detectives who charged him with attempted murder alongside drug trafficking and firearms offences.
The brothers’ parents, Nick and Natalie Gatis, who were alerted to the incident in the early hours of the morning, were in Greece at the time of the shooting and were forced to make a mercy dash home to find one son in a serious condition in the emergency department of the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the other behind bars.