Chilling tape of Sydney killers’ cruelty

‘They made sure she saw the gun before she died,’ Lametta Fadlallah’s mother, Nadia, says through tears.

Lametta Fadlallah.

Tap, tap, tap, tap. Four rapid taps of a gun on a glass window were the last thing Lametta Fadlallah and Amy Hazouri heard before they were shot dead on a quiet street in southwest Sydney on Saturday night.

The taps can be heard on a chilling video obtained by The Australian from the CCTV of a neighbour in Panania.

Ms Fadlallah’s killers wanted her to know that her life was about to come to an end, her family ­believes.

“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.”

Police said the 48-year-old business owner had previously had links with organised crime but she was not believed to have had a criminal history.

The two women, along with a 20-year-old man driving the car and a 16-year-old girl in the passenger seat, were sitting outside Ms Fadlallah’s house in Panania when a vehicle pulled up beside them and pumped 17 bullets into it. The driver of the women’s car sped off in a bid to ­escape, pulling over about 1km away in Revesby, where police were called.

In an emotionally charged interview, her mother said Ms Fadlallah was the life of any party. “She was lovely, she likes to party, she liked to dance, she liked to drink,” she said. “But she’s not (an) underworld figure.”

She disputed claims by police that she was on their radar.

“That’s disgusting; that’s something that really cut us up,” Lametta’s sister Sandra Fadlallah said. “Her ex-husband was, but she wasn’t. Her son mentioned she had a feeling something wasn’t right.”

Police at the crime scene on Saturday. Picture: Damian Shaw

“It doesn’t matter how bad she is, they shouldn’t do that. We’re all going to die at some point,” Nadia Fadlallah said.

“I don’t want them to go to jail – I want them to leave them on the street the same way they did to my daughter … someone else will get them back, in God’s name.

A burnt-out Audi Q7, which police are investigating as to whether it is linked to the fatal shooting of two women in southwest Sydney. Picture: Liam Mendes

“The way she’s died, cowards, cowards, they’re cowards.

“They’re cowards – after they killed her they go burn the car.”

The family says Ms Fadlallah had been diagnosed with a ­tumour next to her appendix.

A spent cartridge approximately 200 metres away from the scene of the fatal shooting. Picture: Liam Mendes

Her teenage son, who turns 16 on Wednesday, said his mother was “a very good woman”.

His father, Helal Safi, was a notorious standover man and drug dealer who died of a heart attack last year.

Ms Fadlallah has another son with Shadi Derbas, a member of the once-notorious Telopea Street gang.

It appears hairdresser Ms Hazouri was caught up in the hit only because she sat next to Ms Fadlallah in the back seat of the Toyota 4WD. The 39-year-old was described as a “fun-loving” girl by her friend and client Rhonda, who had her hair cut by her the morning she died.

“She would listen to everything … she’s always caring, always loving, supporting her family that were overseas,” Rhonda said. “She’s a beautiful person, she’s kind-hearted.”

Ms Hazouri had been sending money to relatives struggling with the economic crisis in Lebanon. Her sister pleaded on social media for funds to repatriate her body to Lebanon, saying their mother was unwell and could not come to Australia for a funeral.

The shooting has shocked police and locals, who say the “rules of engagement” of the criminal underworld have been “thrown out the window”.

“This demonstrates how low they’ve got to – where any person who may be associated with someone they want to target, they don’t care if you’re male or female,” NSW police Superintendent Danny Doherty said on Sunday.