A new police appeal has revealed the spine-chilling moment a man shoots a gun from a moving vehicle in a brazen daylight attack on a Sydney street.
Four months after NSW Police launched Taskforce Falcon to crack down on a series of public place shootings linked to organised crime in Sydney, one of the earliest incidents remains unsolved.
At least five shootings have been attributed to a tit-for-tat conflict within the Alameddine crime network, the first of which was a brazen daylight attack in Brighton Le Sands on February 18.
It was just before 3.10pm on a Tuesday when the feud first spilled onto Sydney’s streets. A grey Audi SUV turned into The Boulevarde from The Grand Parade, when a man lowered the passenger seat window and fired a black handgun towards three men.
Footage released by police shows the masked and hooded man, dressed in dark clothing and wearing white gloves, with only his eyes visible as he aims his gun at his target.
The man fired several shots at three men standing on the street near parked vehicles. None of them were injured, but three vehicles were hit by bullets and a building sustained damage. Police believe another man was driving the Audi.
Fire engulfs the grey Audi on a street in Narwee.Credit: NSW Police
A second clip shows a matching Audi being parked on Windarra Street in Narwee, a short time later. The clip then cuts to the car being engulfed by flames, which quickly destroy it.
One of the men targeted in the shooting, Dawood Zakaria, was killed three months later after several men allegedly opened fire on the car he was travelling in with three associates in Granville on May 25. Zakaria, a senior underworld figure, initially survived being shot in the head, but died in hospital several days later as Taskforce Falcon was established.
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