Outlaw bikie violence caught on camera across Melbourne
Shootings and firebombings abound when outlaw bikies go to war in Melbourne. Here are the shocking moments Mongols, Finks, Comancheros, Bandidos and Bros were on the wrong end of the violence caught on camera.
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Bikie warfare was once something the broader public read about but never saw.
Nowadays, ubiquitous CCTV has brought graphic vision of these crimes to our screens and provided police investigators with vital evidence.
Attempted hits, drive-by shootings and bombings linked to outlaw motorcycle gang members have all been captured in recent years in Victoria.
Members from gangs including the Mongols, Comancheros, Finks, Bandidos and Bros are among those on the wrong end of the violence caught on camera.
ROBERT ALE
The pain of getting himself inked turned out to be nothing when gunmen burst into a Hampton Park tattoo parlour and blasted Robert Ale in 2018.
Ale, the former right-hand man of Comanchero boss Mick Murray, somehow survived the attack at the Nitro Ink business.
Footage shows the masked shooters get out of a car as onlookers quickly read the play and make themselves scarce.
The hit team walk inside and emerge seconds later, having repeatedly shot Ale and left holes in walls with the bullets that missed.
Things have not gotten much better for Ale, who is now doing a long stretch in prison.
ROCCO CURRA
Mongols MC member Rocco Curra was allegedly lured to a meeting which should have been his last in Bulleen in August last year.
CCTV from a home shows a BMW sweep in front of the waiting bikie’s vehicle in Bourke St and two masked men emerge.
The pair instantaneously open fire on Curra, each of seven shots marked by muzzle flash and gunsmoke.
The BMW was later found torched in neighbouring Templestowe.
The Echo taskforce released the video as part of their hunt for two gunmen and their getaway driver.
ATTWOOD SHOOTING
They came from West Australia and left with nasty bullet wounds after an ambush at Attwood, in Melbourne’s north-west.
The Comanchero pair had headed to the quiet Lavery Place for a meeting when they were taken by surprise in 2016.
CCTV shows the men arriving in the cul-de-sac, climbing out of their vehicle and walking to a house.
A series of flashes comes from the shadows and a man emerges, running towards them.
The victims run for their lives as the shooter appears to continue firing before running into a house.
BJ REKER
Notorious Fink member Brent Reker found himself on the wrong end of bikie violence in 2018.
Video later released by the Echo taskforce showed Reker’s car burst into flames and a man sprinting back to a waiting vehicle.
A series of shots are then fired into the Reker’s home. where his family was sleeping, before the car drives away.
That vehicle was later found incinerated in Carramar Drive.
Reker recently died in the Ravenhall Correctional Centre where he was on remand after being charged in connection with a violent home invasion
RESERVOIR SHOOTING
Two terrifying late-night attacks at Reservoir were graphically captured on the victim’s CCTV.
In the first of two assaults on the Bray St property in June last year, a masked gunman wearing a radio and a ballistic vest walks to the front porch and opens fire.
He repeatedly kicks the front door and shouts: “Open up you f...ing c.... Open up. Open up.”
The gunman then shoots at cars in the driveway.
The victim looks relaxed in the moments before the second attack, using his phone and casually climbing a fence and walking to a Porsche SUV.
As he crosses the road, a gunman climbs from the Porsche and opens fire, forcing the homeowner to run for his life.
The victim was wounded in the ambush.
Both cases are the subject of active investigation by the Echo taskforce.
BROS YARRAVILLE HQ
The Bros are one of Victoria’s more low-key OMCG groups.
But an understated presence doesn’t mean you can’t make enemies in the bikie world.
Up to 50 club members were partying at the Bros’ Yarraville HQ in March, 2016, when they came under fire.
CCTV audio records four shots being fired by a gunman before three return rounds are launched at him.
The shooter is then shown bolting from the scene.
One of the group at the clubhouse was left with a leg wound while another was shot in the stomach.
BANDIDOS CLUBHOUSE
Enemies of Geelong’s Bandido outfit decided to mark Australia Day, 2016, by firebombing their clubhouse.
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Two men can be seen on CCTV arriving at the Bayldon Court stronghold in the early hours.
What can’t be seen is the pair leaving power gel and a detonator behind a brick alcove at the club entrance.
They then run from the alcove and a fiery blast can be seen seconds later.
Police later said the Bandidos had not been cooperative with investigators and that they were forced to seize the footage under warrant.