Man freed over shooting ambush of Sam Abdulrahim charged over gun attack

A young Epping man freed over the funeral shooting ambush of Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim has been charged over a gun attack on the home of another alleged gangland figure’s family.

A young man freed over the funeral shooting ambush of Sam Abdulrahim is one of a group charged over a gun attack on the home of another alleged gangland figure’s family.

Yasir Al Qassim, 20, of Epping, will face court next month charged over a Christmas incident in which the Fawkner home of the parents of Mohammed Oueida was blasted with gunfire.

Al Qassim was arrested at Melbourne Airport in April and charged with home invasion, two counts of reckless conduct endangering life, use of a firearm when a firearms prohibition order applies, discharging a shot at premises, four counts of car theft and three counts of criminal damage by fire.

Yasir Al Qassim has been charged over a gun attack on the home of another alleged gangland figure’s family.

He is one of four people charged as part of an armed crime squad inquiry into the December 23 shooting and torching of a car at the Oueida property five days later.

The others are a 16-year-old boy, a 21-year-old man from Craigieburn, a Clifton Hill man, 23, and a 23-year-old Reservoir man.

Al Qassim, 20, was last year released from prison after prosecutors dropped charges of the attempted murder of Middle-eastern organised crime figure and former Mongol bikie Abdulrahim at Fawkner Cemetery in 2022.

Abdulrahim has survived two attempts on his life. Picture David Geraghty

Abdulrahim, a boxer who fights under the name The Punisher, survived another attempt on his life earlier this year at his Thomastown home.

Oueida is on remand in West Australia on drug charges.

The men are suspected of being in the sights of exiled crime boss Kazem Hamad, the alleged instigator of Melbourne’s long-running tobacco war.