Arncliffe targeted shooting hit house with young children inside
Two little girls were sleeping inside a notorious Sydney family’s home when an unknown person pulled up in a luxury car and shot repeatedly at the house in the early hours of Friday. Police have released CCTV footage of a car they are looking for.
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A targeted shooting at the home of a notorious Sydney family where two little girls were sleeping has been labelled a “disgrace” by local police.
At 2am on Friday an unknown person fired several shots from the driver’s window of a white Mercedes AMG into a Wollongong Rd home in Arncliffe, where members of the Jomaa family reside.
Detective Superintendent Tony Cooke from St George police said members of the family were well known to police.
“This is ridiculous behaviour, it is absolutely unacceptable,” Det Supt Cooke said.
“It’s an absolute disgrace.”
Det Supt Cooke said the family was assisting police with their investigation and police’s prior association with them would form a line of inquiry into the shooting.
“It’s absolutely disgusting behaviour,” he said.
“This behaviour can injure and kill people.”
Police are examining some CCTV from local homes and businesses as part of their investigation.
Inquiries continue but police do not believe there is any connection to a prior shooting at a Station St home in Arncliffe in October.
“Anyone who might have been in the area at 2am this morning, or who might have seen or heard anything, they can contact us through Crime Stoppers anonymously,” Det Supt Cooke said.
“If we have more information we can take these hoodlums from the street.”
In an incident unrelated to Friday’s shooting, one member of the Jomaa family was jailed for at least 14 years for attempting to smuggle 200kg of MDMA into Australia.
Koder Jomaa was jailed in November over the ambitious plot, while his brothers Ali and Abbas Jomaa previously pleaded guilty to several charges related to an illegal tobacco importation, bribing a public official and dealing with the proceeds of crime worth more than $1 million.
NSW Police multicultural liaison officer and former Customs officer Johayna Merhi and Australian Border Force manager Craig Eakin were also jailed for assisting the Jomaas with the attempted importation.