By Harriet Alexander
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Police are warning motorcycle gangs not to engage in tit-for-tat violence after a Comanchero associate was shot dead out the front of his family home on Saturday night in what is believed to have been a targeted kill.
Fares Abounader, 39, was returning to his home on Wall Avenue, Panania, shortly before midnight after an evening of leisure when an unidentified assailant sprang from the darkness and fired several shots.
Detective Superintendent Rob Critchlow said the man's family and a neighbour attempted CPR, followed by emergency officers, but he was severely injured and died at the scene.
Mr Abounader was a former ally of former Comanchero leader Mick Hawi and faced jail time over an airport brawl between rival bikies in 2009 which led to the death of Hells Angel member Anthony Zervas.
Meanwhile, Hawi was shot dead outside a gym in Rockdale in 2018. Two men are facing trial for the alleged murder.
"The shooting was very calculated, very deliberate and quite brazen when you consider this was a nice suburban street and was out the front of a family home," Superintendent Critchlow said.
"There may have been some changes in that recently, which we're still investigating, and there may have been some impacts from that, but the information to date doesn't point us in any particular direction.
"Often these sorts of crimes result in tit-for-tat behaviour and we stress on anyone who's considering doing that to refrain because it will only make the situation worse."
Police are looking for a white SUV which was last seen travelling in an easterly direction from the scene of the crime.
A Comanchero associate was shot dead out the front of his Panania home on Saturday night. Credit: Nine
The incident follows the gunfire attack on construction figure and business owner Mohammed Saab, who was shot by about 12 bullets on the way to his car outside his Turrella home about 7am on Wednesday.
Mr Saab survived the attack and was last reported to be in a stable condition at Kogarah Hospital.
Police said there was no initial suggestion that the two events were connected.
But Superintendent Critchlow said there was an inherent danger in any public shooting. "Bullets can kill anyone, regardless of the person they're aimed at. The fact this happened on a public street means anyone who's nearby can be at risk," he said.
Alleged assault in Randwick
Meanwhile, 20 kilometres to the east of the Panania shooting, a man lost part of his ear in an unrelated attack in a Randwick unit on Saturday night.
Police have been told that the 30-year-old man was involved in a fight with a 23-year-old man who was known to him, after which four men entered the unit and stabbed the older man.
When officers entered the unit on Young Street, the older man was suffering from several stab wounds to his head and body and part of his ear had been severed. He was taken to St Vincent's Hospital with serious internal injuries, though his condition was not life-threatening.
The younger man and a 26-year-old woman have since been arrested and charged. The woman is understood to have allowed the men access to the unit and she has been charged with aiding and abetting to wound a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The man has been charged with wounding a person with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
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