A MAN was fatally shot in the head in Sydney's west because of a neighbourhood dispute over loud music.

Police discovered the man at the Russell St property in Mount Pritchard last night with serious head injuries which they say were consistent with a gunshot wound.



Paramedics worked on the victim but he died at the scene.



Fairfax Radio reported that the shooting was the result a dispute with neighbours.



The 37-year-old man known only as Wally was home with his pregnant partner when he was attacked, Fairfax Radio says.



Neighbours and friends say he was trying to protect his pregnant partner before he was shot.



"He locked the door so she wouldn't come out so she didn't get harmed and she was yelling and screaming," friend Jenny Haddad told Fairfax Radio.



"They didn't deserve it."



Two men are being questioned over the shooting.

Originally published as Wally shot dead over loud music