“We believe there was a second person in the vehicle who was uninjured and we are continuing to speak with that person.”
Vincent said he is “not aware of” any connection to Sunday night’s fatal pub shooting at Forest Lodge’s Harold Park Hotel in which Maradona Yalda, 31, was seriously injured and his associate Gilbert Shino, 39, was killed.
Yalda has long been linked to Assyrian organised crime gang DLASTHR – or “The Last Hour” – and Momani is also of Assyrian descent.
One neighbour told the Herald they had witnessed the man’s body being stretchered onto an ambulance on Tuesday night.
“I was in my room, and I saw red and blue flashing lights reflected on my neighbour’s house,” the teenager said. “So I ran downstairs, and I told my dad, and we went outside to see what was happening.
“We saw a whole lot of police cars and ambulances, and I saw a man on a stretcher being carried up into an ambulance, and he had been shot in the chest.”
Bullet holes peppered the silver sedan.Credit: Nine News
The two shootings this week come after a period of relative calm following a series of tit-for-tat incidents linked to feuds within Sydney’s underworld.
NSW Police launched Taskforce Falcon in March in response to several public place shootings that targeted high-profile underworld figures. The Winston Hills shooting isn’t believed to be linked.
It comes as police arrested a teenager for his alleged role in a fatal shooting in Granville in May. He is expected to be charged with murder and attempted murder.
Dawood Zakaria, 32, and Parramatta solicitor Sylvan Singh, 25, were allegedly shot through the windscreen of a Toyota Hilux as it travelled on Woodville Road on May 25.
NSW police at the Lachlan View estate on Regiment Grove in Winston Hills where a crime scene has been established following a fatal shooting last night just after 7pm. Winston Hills, Sydney. August 20, 2025. Photo: Kate GeraghtyCredit: Kate Geraghty
One of the car’s other occupants, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was thought to be the target of what investigators say was a gangland shooting. Both men in the back seat were uninjured.
Zakaria was in the passenger seat beside Singh, who was driving the ute and suffered several gunshot wounds to the arm and shoulder. He is not a member of the underworld and is not accused of wrongdoing.
Zakaria died in hospital.
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