The moment The Executioner was executed: Shock footage of Sydney gangland hit on Hamad Assaad

Dramatic footage of Sydney hitman Hamad Assaad being killed has been obtained by The Daily Telegraph, nearly eight years after the man known as “The Executioner” was himself executed. Watch the video on DTTV.

Dramatic footage of Sydney hitman Hamad Assaad being killed has been obtained by DTTV, nearly eight years after the man known as “The Executioner” was himself executed.

Assaad was murdered during the city’s gangland war of 2016-17 between the Ahmad and Elmir crime families.

In one video, never seen publicly before, two gunman are metres away when they open fire on Assaad at his Georges Hall home on the morning of October 25, 2016.

Assaad crumples to the ground as he is hit with a volley of shots from the two masked killers.

“It is some of the most vivid footage I have ever seen, and it was his own CCTV cameras that caught it,” said an investigator on the case.

CCTV image of two gunman outside Hamad Assaad’s Georges Hill home.

The attack occurred on October 25, 2016.

Assaad, 29, had been big noting himself around town that he killed one of Sydney’s Mr Bigs, Walid Ahmaad, at a rooftop cafe at Bankstown Centro shopping centre in April 2016.

“But there was no way he could have done it. He was visiting a relative in a hospital and caught on CCTV footage seven minutes after Wally was shot,” said the investigator.

“Highway patrol cars doing their best couldn’t make it from the shopping centre to that location in that space of time.”

Hamad Assaad.

His bragging was no doubt what got him killed. “The wrong people heard it and went for revenge or thought it was a good chance to kill him,” said another officer.

The prime suspects in Assad’s execution were Kemel “Blackie” Barakat and Mejid Hamzy.

Biometrics from the CCTV matched their heights within a few centimetres. “But there was nothing else that could put them there at that time of the day when Assaad was killed,” the officer said.

The funeral of Hamad Assaad at Lakemba Mosque in Sydney's west. Picture: John Feder

Barakat was murdered in his Mortlake unit the following year and Hamzy outside his Condell Park home in October 2020.

On the morning Assaad was killed, an officer was sitting in an unmarked police car and watched as the killers strode to the house and started shooting.

“It took 15 seconds, there was not much he could do,” said a senior officer.

In the lead up, Assaad is seen moving a white Nissan from the driveway and parking it on the street outside before walking up to the carport to get into a Ford Ranger.

A black Audi SQ5 pulls up into the driveway and parks haphazardly on the front lawn.

The men with handguns at the ready spring out of the front and rear passenger seats, race toward Assaad and let off a massive volley of shots.

The shooters or those behind his execution have never been charged.

Do you have a story for The Daily Telegraph? Message 0481 056 618 or email [e-mail]