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Pasquale Barbaro: Slain kingpin’s final words after being shot

AFTER Pasquale Barbaro was shot through the window of his luxury car, he managed to stumble to the door of a home and scream his final desperate words “open the f---ing door” before dying.

AFTER crime kingpin Pasquale Barbaro was shot through the window of his luxury car, he managed to stumble to the door of a home and scream his final desperate words “open the f---ing door” before dying on the footpath.

Barbaro, 35, was executed in Earlwood on Monday night outside the home of construction identity George Alex.

Barbaro died on the footpath after being shot while sitting in his car.
Barbaro died on the footpath after being shot while sitting in his car.
The gangster was heard screaming ‘open the f---ing door’ before he died. Picture: Bill Hearne
The gangster was heard screaming ‘open the f---ing door’ before he died. Picture: Bill Hearne

A neighbour witnessed the horrifying ordeal and saw Barbaro stumble to Alex’s front door after being shot.

“He ran to the door of these people’s house,” the man said pointing to Alex’s house.

“That was his last words… ‘open the f---ing door’”.

The man and his girlfriend were the first on the scene after Barbaro was shot.

“We seen him lying on the street but he was dead, where the [telegraph] pole is just there,” he said.

Neighbours had seen Barbaro sitting in his car throughout the day.
Neighbours had seen Barbaro sitting in his car throughout the day.
He was also seen going in and out of the house of construction identity George Alex.
He was also seen going in and out of the house of construction identity George Alex.

“You can probably see the stains of blood, they are still there.”

“He must have dragged himself to the floor,” the woman added.

Yesterday the same neighbour said Barbaro had been sitting in his luxury Mercedes sedan and had been seen going in and out of the house.

Police were still at the scene yesterday doing line searches for evidence. Picture: Dylan Robinson
Police were still at the scene yesterday doing line searches for evidence. Picture: Dylan Robinson
The investigation is ongoing and there are warnings more blood will be shed. Picture: Craig Wilson
The investigation is ongoing and there are warnings more blood will be shed. Picture: Craig Wilson

She’d noticed cars were parked in the wrong direction on the small street earlier on Monday and had the feeling “something is going on here tonight,”.

“One hour later this happens,” she said.

Nobody answered the door at George Alex’s house in the street on Wednesday morning.

Detectives attended the street again, knocking on the doors of neighbours.

WIFE SCAMMED WHILE BARBARO WAS BEHIND BARS

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Barbaro was remanded in custody at Long Bay Jail between June 2012 and May 2013 after being charged with manufacturing 2kgs of ice in Goulburn and Cobbitty between October 2010 and November 2011.

He was one of four men charged over the drug manufacture and was due in court next month to face trial in February.

While in custody accused money lending fraudster Ian Lazar allegedly conned his then wife Melinda Barbaro into paying him $35,000 with the promise he money could get the charges dropped through a new legal team.

In a failed bail application earlier this year Central Local Court heard Lazar allegedly told Ms Barbaro that there was a hit on her husband and the money would protect him in jail. Lazar is due to face a District Court hearing this week on a string of fraud charges.

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