Hurstville shooting: one man shot dead on Park Street, another injured

Chaos erupted outside a Sydney boxing match on Saturday night following the death of Mustafa Naaman, shot and killed by unknown assailants.

The man ambushed and shot dead in front of a massive crowd on a Sydney street has been named as Mustafa Naaman.

A police strike force must now untangle who planned the very public hit in the city’s south as a second man, who survived the attack, lays in hospital.

Naaman and a younger man, believed to be a relative, were cut down by handgun fire in Hurstville on Saturday night moments after a boxing match finished? in the nearby civic centre.

The men were getting into a white Mercedes when the bullets shattered the rear windshield and pierced the glass of another nearby p-plater’s hatchback.

Mustafa Naaman was cut down in a hail of targeted gunfire on a street in Hurstville on Saturday. Picture: Facebook

Stills from a video in the aftermath of the shooting.

The assassins fled and have not been identified.

A witness at the scene told The Daily Telegraph he heard bullets whizz past as he stepped outside after the boxing match.

“It’s so brazen, there were so many people here,” he said.

“There were like 200 witnesses. I thought it was a .22, just going clink clink clink.”

The witness had been one of the hundreds watching the match between Billy Dib and Joey Baylon and the crowd was beginning to funnel onto the street when chaos erupted, he said.

The witness did not know if the shot men had attended the boxing match and police say there is no suggestion the event was linked to the shooting.

The victim’s car being taken away from the scene. Picture: Adam Yip

Footage from the scene in the aftermath of the killing.

Harrowing footage from the scene shows one man inside the car getting carried from the vehicle and placed onto a paramedic bed as a police officer holds pressure to his chest.

“You’re gonna make it,” one man is heard saying in the background as the man is carried by paramedics and his friends.

“Breathe brother, breathe.”

Dozens of cars remained trapped behind police tape on Sunday morning as detectives bagged evidence and canvassed the scene to talk to witnesses.

The white Mercedes and the hatchback were towed away just before lunch.

The rear window of the luxury sedan was entirely blown out and what appeared to be blood was smeared on a rear panel.

Forensic police at the scene on Sunday morning. Picture: Adam Yip

Forensic police at the scene on Sunday morning. Picture: Adam Yip

Black shattered glass and blood stained gauze still sits on the bitumen on the quiet street.

Detective Superintendent Tony Cooke said it was clearly a targeted hit and said police would find who was responsible.

“Two men were entering a vehicle when they were ambushed by a number of males, a number of shots were fired,” he said.

“We have a significant body of police working on this to bring the people involved before the courts.”

Naaman was known to police but investigators are now working to piece together the exact motive.