Yusuf Nazlioglu in confrontation with dead Comanchero boss Mick Hawi’s mum

Yusuf Nazlioglu, a bikie once accused of murdering a Comanchero boss, was involved in a confrontation with his accused hit’s mum weeks before winding up dead.

Slain bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu had an ugly run-in with the mother of a Comanchero boss he was once accused of murdering in the weeks before he himself was shot dead.

Nazlioglu, 40, was involved in the confrontation with the mother of Mick Hawi, the former president of the Comanchero bikie gang, at a Sydney cemetery in the lead-up to Nazlioglu’s assassination in an underground car park at Rhodes, in Sydney’s inner-west, about 6.30pm on Monday.

The death of the former Lone Wolf bikie came two years after he was acquitted by a NSW Supreme Court jury of murdering Hawi outside the Fitness First Gym at Rockdale in February 2018.

Police and underworld sources confirmed the incident between Nazlioglu and Hawi’s mother.

The Daily Telegraph is in no way suggesting any of Hawi’s relatives had any involvement in Monday night’s shooting of Nazlioglu.

Former Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu was fatally shot in the car park of his Rhodes apartment on Monday. Picture: TNV

“Juries get it wrong, he pulled the trigger (to kill Hawi), we all know that,” one underworld source said.

“Hawi was a very popular figure in the Comos (Comanchero OMCG), especially after the way he gave himself up for the airport brawl.

Yusuf Nazlioglu.

Mick Hawi.

“There’s a lot of guys out there that would still be loyal to him.”

However, his run-in with Mrs Hawi was not the only incident Nazlioglu had been involved in recently.

Underworld sources also claimed he was behind the brazen extortion and theft of a number of luxury cars, including a Bentley, from a member of a well-known Sydney crime family.

“It was only a matter of time. Sydney is a dangerous place at the minute man,” a source said.

CCTV showed the moment a gunman left his car and snuck up on Mahmoud ‘Mick’ Hawi, before opening fire to kill the former Comanchero boss in a daylight hit in 2018.

Nazlioglu died in Westmead Hospital on Tuesday morning almost exactly 12 hours after he was shot up to 10 times, including in the head and chest.

A gunman unloaded on him in the basement carpark of an apartment building in front of his wife.

Nazlioglu and wife Jade were parking in the building where they lived when he was approached by the shooter.

It is understood she briefly tried to drive him to hospital before triple-0 was called.

The gunman fled the scene in a silver hatchback which was found burnt out in nearby Leeds St shortly after the shooting.

Police at the scene of Monday’s shooting. Picture: Damian Shaw

“The attack in our view was a targeted attack,” NSW Police Detective Superintendent Martin Hayston said.

“The person who approached the 40-year-old male and shot him clearly was here to do that. There is various lines of inquiry that are under way in relation to motive.”

Nazlioglu’s death ends a run of six weeks without a fatal shooting in Sydney’s streets.

At least 14 men have been shot dead in the past two years in the city’s rampant underworld war.

While investigations are in their infancy, there so far are no obvious links between his death and the warring Alameddine or Hamzy clans.

The former bikie had recently married his partner Jade and the pair regularly posted photos together on social media, including some taken in the front seat of the Mercedes that he was sitting in when the attack took place.

A shattered Mrs Nazlioglu was seen talking to friends outside the tower block where they lived, in a black hoodie with tears streaming down her face.

“Of course I’m not all right, what do you think?” she said.

Nazlioglu and his wife Jade.

The pair regularly posted photos on social media together.

One resident of the tower block said Mrs Nazlioglu was seen crying in the foyer as emergency services tried to resuscitate her husband.

“We saw lots of police and there was a lot of commotion last night outside the block, the cops told us not to leave our house and the bikie’s wife was crying in the foyer,” the neighbour said.

“She was wailing, she was really upset. She was saying: ‘Why did they have to kill him, he’s a new man, he hasn’t done anything wrong, he’s not what he used to be’.”

A shattered Mrs Nazlioglu was seen talking to friends outside the tower block on Tuesday.

The apartment block where Nazlioglu lived is one of many high-rises in the area which is normally a bustling shopping precinct.

Local McDonald’s worker Alexa Felix, 19, said the incident did not make her concerned about her safety in the Rhodes area, saying she thought it was a “one-off”.

“It was a fluke incident, this is normally a safe area. It was shocking to hear about it, but I put it down as a one-off,” Ms Felix said.

“We’ve all been saying in the restaurant how these things happen in cities, you get shootings all the time.”