Revesby shooting: Gunman pushed teen’s head out of the way before opening fire
Four men walked up to a car and told a teenage girl to wind down her window, before one pushed her head out of the way and pumped 15 bullets into the backseat, killing two women.
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Four men walked up to a car and told a teenage girl to wind down her window, before one pushed her head out of the way and pumped 15 bullets into the backseat, killing two women.
Terrifying new details have emerged of the moment gangster mother Lametta Fadlallah and her hairdresser friend Amy Hazouri were shot dead in Panania on Saturday night.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the 16-year-old girl in the front seat had never met Ms Fadlallah, who police say was the intended target of the hit, but had simply gone to the house with her 20-year-old male friend to collect Ms Hazouri and give the older woman a lift to her night out.
A relative of the young girl said she is so traumatised she cannot return to school and is now undergoing intensive medical therapy.
“She screamed at her friend ‘just drive, drive, drive, get away’,” the relative said of the girl.
The 20-year-old male driver sped about a kilometre to nearby Revesby while the petrified 16-year-old girl fumbled with her mobile phone as she tried to call for help.
“She was trying to call police but she was so scared she couldn’t talk, so they pulled over and she threw the phone to someone else,” the relative said.
It is understood the girl has told homicide detectives she did not get a good look at the four men because of how dark it was when they approached the car on Hendy Ave just before 9pm.
The girl’s relative said she “hasn’t stopped crying, she can’t sleep and she can’t eat” because of the trauma of what she witnessed.
“Amy was her best friend, she did not even know this other woman — never met her in her life,” they said.
“She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“Why didn’t they wait until these other people in the car were gone? If they were after this woman, why didn’t they wait until she was alone?
“The girl will never recover from this, not even in 20 years.”
On chilling CCTV video footage supplied to The Australian from a neighbour, four taps on the car window can be heard before more than a dozen bullets were rapidly fired.
Ms Fadlallah’s family said they believed her killers wanted her to know that her life was about to come to an end, The Australian reports.
“They made sure she saw the gun before she died,” Ms Fadlallah’s mother, Nadia, said through tears on Monday.
“Only God and her knows who it is; that secret goes with her,” they said.
The slain underworld mum was on the way to an engagement party at her boyfriend’s nearby restaurant when she and her friend Ms Hazouri were gunned down in Sydney.
The new details about the double execution came as Ms Hazouri’s family said she was a “beautiful” sister and daughter who had been sending money to her family in Lebanon.
Police believe Ms Fadlallah was the target and Ms Hazouri just a tragic case of murder in the line of fire.
Underworld sources said the two women were on the way to a venue owned by Ms Fadlallah’s partner, a claim police were also aware of.
The killer, or killers, lay in wait, and as the pair got into the rear of the car outside Ms Fadlallah’s home in Panania they fired more than a dozen shots at them, investigators believe.
The heartbroken family of Ms Hazouri, 39, described how she had set up a life in Australia in recent years, but continued to support her relatives and sick mother back in her homeland.
“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 online.
“Our mother is not well and cannot travel to Australia to see her daughter.”
Ms Hazouri’s friends in Australia and colleagues at the Bankstown hairdresser where she worked led the tributes to her, with the salon set to remain closed for a number of days.
TikTok videos posted by Ms Hazouri showed off not only her hairdressing ability, but also the lighter side of the life she had created in Australia.
In one clip she dances to a tune on a night out with friends, and in another she blows a kiss to a mirror as she snaps a selfie.
The killings of Ms Hazouri and Ms Fadlallah took the death toll in Sydney’s current underworld war to 16 in the past two years – an average of one killing every six weeks.
Witnesses to Saturday’s attack described how a teenage girl sat in the gutter wailing as emergency crews desperately tried to save Ms Fadlallah’s life.
One resident – processing the horror she witnessed at Revesby when the car, which was driven from Panania after the shots were fired, stopped outside her house with the two dying women inside – said the sound of a young girl’s “guttural” screaming was something she would never forget.
Ms Hazouri and Lametta Fadlallah were shot dead about 8.50pm on Saturday night.
“I can’t even describe the noise … It was this deep groaning, wailing. It was just awful,” she said.
The group of four, including the 20-year-old male driver and his 16-year-old girlfriend, were all known to each other.
A number of sources said Ms Fadlallah, who was mixing with known criminals at the time of her death, had been rattled in recent weeks.
“Ever since she came back from a summer holiday in Lebanon recently she seemed worried about something,” a source said.
“But she didn’t tell anyone what was up.”
Speculation in the underworld since the shooting has ranged from the fact Ms Fadlallah had been involved in a “drug rip” to the fact she may have known details about recent murders.
Seven News reported Ms Fadlallah had recently purchased a car for $500,000 and owed a lot of money.
Senior police on Monday were not commenting, saying a number of leads and possible motives were under investigation.
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