Revesby shooting: Slain hairdresser Amy Hazouri’s family tell of ‘beautiful, innocent’ woman killed next to Lametta Fadlallah

The heartbroken family of Amy Hazouri, 39, gunned down in Revesby, have told how she had set up a life in Australia, but still sent money back to her sick mum in Lebanon.

An innocent hairdresser caught up in Saturday night’s double murder had been sending money back to her family in Lebanon, before losing her life as the latest victim of a gangland hit.

The heartbroken family of Amy Hazouri, 39, have described her as “beautiful” and told how she had set up a life in Australia, but continued to support her relatives and sick mother back in her homeland.

But her life was tragically cut short just before 9pm on Saturday as she sat in the back seat of a Toyota 4WD next to underworld figure Lametta Fadlallah, who was also killed in the attack.

The killings of the two women saw the death toll in Sydney’s current underworld war jump to 16 since late-2021.

Ms Hazouri’s family said they are now hoping to repatriate her body back to Lebanon in the coming days.

Amy Hazouri’s heartbroken family are hoping to repatriate her body to Lebanon after being killed in Saturday night’s Revesby shooting

Ms Hazouri and Lametta Fadlallah were shot dead about 8.50pm on Saturday night. Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

“Amy was the sole provider for our family in Lebanon that is currently struggling with the economic crisis in Lebanon,” Ms Hazouri’s sister wrote on a GoFundMe page.

“We require urgent funds to carry out funeral services and transfer her body to Lebanon to lay at rest. Our mother is not well and cannot travel to Australia to see her daughter.”

The women – along with a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl – were sitting outside Ms Fadlallah’s house in Panania, when a vehicle pulled up beside them and “pumped about eight shots into it”.

Local woman Rebecca, who was preparing her young kids for bed, said there was no mistaking the sound that rang out in the quiet street just before 9pm.

“My kids heard it, we all did … like bang, bang, bang, yeah, we knew straight away it was a gun,” she said.

The 4WD which had been shot up, with the dying women inside, then sped away from Hendy Ave for about a kilometre to Revesby where it pulled over.

Ms Fadlallah was a well-known figure in Sydney’s underworld, having been married to two powerful men in her life. Picture: Facebook

NSW Police Homicide Squad Commander Danny Doherty said the rule book had been “thrown out” with the deaths of the two women. Picture: Facebook

Retired firefighter Peter Aitkin was sitting on his veranda when the 4WD pulled up directly outside his Weston St house, followed by two more vehicles behind it.

“There was a lot of yelling but I had no idea what it was all about … I thought at first the woman in the back might have had a heart attack and that’s why the car has pulled up,” he said. Across the street, neighbour Susan saw the same commotion and called Triple-0 thinking it was a domestic violence incident.

“The man was yelling at the woman to get back in the car … she was screaming, I couldn’t really understand what she was saying but she was hysterical, so I called the police,” Susan said.

But NSW Police homicide squad boss Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said what neighbours witnessed was an “assassination” of two women on a public street and the car had fled there to escape taking any more bullets.

Police set up multiple crime scenes across Sydney’s western suburbs in the wake of the shooting. Picture by Damian Shaw

A steely Det Supt Doherty said the double shooting murder of two women who are “mothers, daughters, loved ones” was an appalling crime which had the hallmarks of a methodical and planned murder.

He said the underworld “rule book” had gone out the window.

“There used to be an unwritten law that you don’t touch family and you don’t touch women,” Det Supt Doherty said.

“That’s been thrown out of the window, they don’t care anymore. They don’t discriminate if you’re male or female.”