The War: Young Blood - Alleged Prospect gym shooter Fiti Ah-Cheung’s links to Mt Druitt street gang RFA

Both men allegedly involved in one of Sydney’s attempted Hamzy-Alameddine underworld assassinations have links to a postcode street gang, it can be revealed. But it was what unfolded during the attempted hit that shocked the city.

The second man charged by police over the Prospect gym shooting that came within centimetres of killing children in a childcare centre was also a member of a street gang in the Mt Druitt area as a teenager, it can be revealed.

Fiti Ah-Cheung is facing charges including shoot at with intent to murder over his alleged involvement in the shooting of Murat Gulasi from last November that is considered one of the worst incidents of Sydney’s gangland war.

Police sources have told The Daily Telegraph that Ah-Cheung became involved in a local street gang when he was a teenager.

“He has been well known to us for a number of years,” one source said.

“There were several incidents when he was running around with RFA before the Prospect gym shooting.”

Fiti Ah-Cheung is one of eight men charged over his alleged involvement in a shooting at a Prospect gym in 2021. Supplied: NSW Police

Ah-Cheung and his co-accused Joseph Howard, aka Freddy14, had links to postcode gangs in their younger years. Picture: Supplied

RFA, which stands for Ready for Anything, is a known postcode gang coming out of the Mt Druitt area.

The police source said it is viewed as a feeder gang for bigger groups and has associations with OneFour, as does Ah-Cheung’s co-accused Joseph Howard – known in the Mt Druitt and Bidwill area as “Freddy14”.

These revelations feature in the second episode of The Daily Telegraph’s docu-series The War: Young Blood, which is out today.

Ah-Cheung has been in custody on remand since his arrest last December over the alleged gym shooting.

Terrifying images show bullets flying into a childcare centre next to the gym, missing children and their carers by just centimetres. Picture: NSW Police

Police have so far charged eight people – including Howard and Ah-Cheung – over their alleged involvement in various aspects of the shooting.

One of the major arrests involved alleged Hamzy crime clan youngster Ibrahem Hamze.

He is charged with shooting with intent to murder and soliciting a murder, and remains in custody on remand.

Alameddine associate Gulasi, who was shot in the leg in the attack at World Gym in Prospect and survived, died earlier this year of natural causes at a gym in Turkey.