Cops visited Zahed brothers to warn them about bounty last Thursday

Despite being warned as recently as last Thursday their lives were at risk and they should change up their gym visits, the Zahed brothers refused to hide and even briefly provided insight into their lives on TikTok.

Omar Zahed started a TikTok page recently offering a look into the lives he and his bikie boss brother Tarek led, before removing almost all of the videos not long after.

Photos showed the pair posing in front of private jets, surrounded by bikies at Comanchero OMCG events and most importantly, standing by each other’s side in front of the large mirrors of a Bodyfit gym.

It was at a Bodyfit gym in Auburn where, about 8pm on Tuesday, two gunmen opened fire, killing Omar, 39, and leaving Tarek, 41, in an induced coma.

Only last Thursday, NSW Police visited the Zahed brothers and reiterated that they were marked men.

The knock on their door came only days after The Daily Telegraph revealed there was a bounty on Tarek’s head, making him the latest figure to be identified as a marked man.

Omar and Tarek Zahed.

An image of Tarek Zahed posted on TikTok.

But despite the warnings of police and his underworld counterparts who told him to change his routine and not visit the gym at his usual time, the Zaheds did not listen.

NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald said the brothers also refused to listen to their intelligence.

Emergency service crews work to save Omar Zahed.

Emergency service crews work to save Tarek Zahed.

“The two brothers who were involved in this incident were warned as of last Thursday that they were at risk but their lives have been at risk for some time,” Asst Comm Fitzgerald said.

“Their lives have been at risk because one is a senior member of the Comanchero motorcycle group which is Australia’s largest criminal organisation.

“They were informed last Thursday that their lives were at risk, as they have been warned on countless other occasions and they decided to make the decision … not to avail themselves of the suggestions and recommendations of NSW Police to leave our state.”

Tarek made headlines last September when he was allowed to fly out of NSW in the middle of lockdown to head to Turkey.

The Auburn gym where the men were shot had been shown on Omar’s short-lived TikTok account.

After initially having a request to travel on “compassionate grounds” refused, he applied a second time and claimed that he had been told by NSW Police of the dangers on his life.

Despite that claim, he still returned to Australia in late-2020, however spent an increasing amount of time in Victoria due to the strict conditions of the Serious Crime Prevention Order taken out by NSW Police.

Even though NSW Police and underworld figures were aware of the bounty on Tarek’s head, exactly who in the murky depths of Australia’s crime world would want to target him continues to remain a mystery.

“We don’t know who would want it to happen,” a police source said recently.

“Police have spoken to him and his lawyer — in that world someone’s always wanting to kill someone, they are always upset.”