Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed is in a essential situation and his brother Omar has died after they have been riddled with bullets within the lobby of a health club in Sydney’s west.
Emergency companies have been referred to as to the Physique Match Health club health club on Parramatta Highway, Auburn, after stories of a capturing at about 8pm on Tuesday.
Omar Zahed was handled for a number of gunshot wounds to his abdomen, legs and arms.
“He was in cardiac arrest and sadly couldn’t be saved,” NSW Ambulance stated in a press release.
Tarek Zahed, who’s in his early 40s and the eldest of the brothers, suffered as much as 10 gunshot wounds to his physique, together with to his head, and was taken to Westmead Hospital in a essential situation.
The capturing comes simply two weeks after gangland determine Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad was gunned down on a Greenacre road.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb stated the most recent capturing might have been retaliation for the killing of Ahmad.
“We won’t rule it out. A few of these persons are in battle with plenty of different teams and it’s exhausting to pinpoint whether it is direct retaliation or not,” she advised Sydney radio 2GB on Wednesday.
She promised to allocate 30 extra officers to Strike Pressure Raptor, which offers with Outlaw Bike Gang legal exercise.
“Sufficient is sufficient,” she stated.
“The group in in southwest Sydney, western Sydney have had sufficient.”
NSW Police had warned Tarek Zahed there was a bounty on his head.
“A few of these folks suppose they’re invincible,” Commisioner Webb added.
“What else are you able to do?
“You attempt to warn them however they only stay their lives like they’re bigger than life.”
Police are investigating if burnt vehicles present in close by suburbs have been linked to the capturing.
NSW Labor has renewed its requires Premier Dominic Perrottet to take motion on gang violence in western Sydney.
Final week, Investigations and Counter Terrorism Deputy Commissioner David Hudson advised a parliamenary listening to there had been 11 Sydney gang-related homicides sparked by rivalries within the legal underworld.
Since June 2020, there have been greater than 40 main recognized violent incidents between gangs in NSW.
