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Two women allegedly shot in separate incidents in southeast Queensland were in the same social circles and had both previously served time in prison.
Linley Anyos, 33, is in a critical condition after she was shot in the back while sitting in the passenger seat of a car parked outside a house on Trees Road in Tallebudgera, on the Gold Coast, at around midday on Wednesday.
Ms Anyos – who Daily Mail Australia previously revealed had served a prison sentence for a range of offences, including weapons, drugs and driving charges – had been at the property to help a friend move.
The alleged shooter is still on the run, while police are searching for a man who fled the scene in a tow truck.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal Ms Anyos shared the same network of friends as Chloe Jade Mason, 23, who was allegedly shot outside a house in Caboolture in Brisbane’s north just after midnight on December 22.
Like Ms Anyos, Ms Mason had an extensive criminal history and was facing a litany of charges in Brisbane magistrates and supreme courts at the time of her death.
Ms Mason had also previously been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of supplying drugs.
After the shooting on Wednesday, members of Ms. Anyos and Ms. Mason’s inner circle flocked online to share their shock over the twin tragedies.
Linley Anne Anyos (pictured) was shot while sitting in a car outside a house in Tallebudgera on Wednesday
The photo shows police at the scene of Thursday’s shooting on the Gold Coast
“F*** bro you were a crazy bastard… We had our days in jail, we got over it,” friend Rebz Mcgrady wrote, referring to Ms Anyos.
‘[You] always gave me crazy advice, so thanks Linley. I will forever look back at the motivational s*** you used to talk to me about when the days are dark.
“Ceejay Mason, rest now. We will live for you, my girls.’
Friend Neenahh Abbey added in another post: ‘Just beyond words. Two of my girls in two weeks’.
The search for Ms Anyos’ suspected shooter and gun continued on Friday morning as she continues to fight for life at Gold Coast University Hospital.
Police believe the shot was fired from the backseat of the car, possibly by a man known to Ms Anyos.
Detectives have not ruled out that the shooting was an accident.
The house in Tallebudgera had just been sold and was bustling with movers and locals who had come to the property to buy items for sale.
Chloe Jade Mason, known to those close to her as CeeJay, was allegedly chased and shot by two men in Caboolture, southeast Queensland, just days before Christmas.
It is understood Ms Anyos was part of a group who were there to help pack the belongings of a man living in a shed at the rear of the property.
Ms Anyos has been in and out of court for various offenses over the past five years, with her most recent court appearance taking place on Monday – just two days before she was shot.
Her criminal history includes being accused of supplying cocaine, allegedly being found with a loaded gun after a road rage incident in 2020, and being arrested in January last year when she found a syringe filled with GHB threw out a car window.
At her court hearing in 2023, her lawyer Lisa Searing said Ms Anyos had had a difficult childhood but had only recently turned to a life of crime after coming into contact with a bad crowd.
‘Her grandparents love her, her family love her, but she’s had some problems… and that has led to her taking drugs and being with mainly the wrong men, which unfortunately has had quite a negative impact probably the last five years of her life. Mrs Searing said at the time.
“She’s normally someone who’s held in high esteem.”
Similarly, Ms Mason had dozens of interactions with the Queensland Court system, dating back to 2016.
She was also involved in a stabbing that nearly took her life, years before she was shot.
Ms Anyos (pictured) previously faced several drug charges and a firearms charge following a road rage incident
Ms Mason, known to those close to her as CeeJay, also had run-ins with the law dating back to 2016
Detectives had released the above photos of the two Thomson brothers before their arrest as they urged them to come forward
‘I’m in the [hospital] department now,” she shared on social media in 2016.
‘There are still nurses around me 24/7 checking on me [and] making sure everything is correct and nothing is out of place.
‘I have two drains in my heart to drain all the blood that leaks from the valve that was cut when the knife went 3 cm deep into my heart.
“I’m fighting through this with the love and support of my family and friends.”
Brothers Codye Thomson, 29, and Kaine Thomson-Gleeson, 32, were arrested in Logan on Monday in connection with Ms Mason’s death.
They have been charged over her alleged murder and faced the Brisbane Arrest Court on Tuesday morning, where Thomson-Gleeson’s lawyer Ken Mackenzie said his client will argue he acted in self-defence.
“What is not in dispute in this case is that Chloe Mason came to the front of Kaine’s house armed with a gun,” Mackenzie said outside the courtroom.
‘Kaine explained to the police that he did not kill Chloe. What he did, he did to defend his home and his family from an assassination attempt.”
The brothers’ cases will both return to the Caboolture Magistrates Court on January 13.