All the shootings across Sydney in the past three months
Premier Chris Minns has responded to ongoing violence on Sydney’s streets after three were shot outside a kebab shop on Monday.
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Sydney’s underworld has exploded in the past three months amid tensions between the Alameddine crime clan and its former “muscle”, the KVT, and an escalation in the city’s “postcode wars”.
Premier Chris Minns has responded to the ongoing violence by reaffirming police resolve and praising their results.
“Well, I put this in perspective, I can’t promise that there isn’t going to be another one of these horrible shootings today, but what I can say is that there’s been 25 organised crime-related murders in NSW since 2021 and 20 of those murders have had arrests as a result of good police work,” Mr Minns said on 2GB.
“The other five are still party to a major investigation, so it’s not empty rhetoric. When the police or the government stand up and say, we’ll put resources to it, we will chase people down, we will make sure we execute arrests — and when we do, the individuals will spend a long time, decades, in tiny prison cells.”
Following the latest incident, which has left three people fighting for life after they were shot outside a kebab shop at Auburn on Monday afternoon, we take a look back at the city’s recent spate of gunfire.
June 12, 2025: Merrylands
The home of alleged Alameddine crime clan boss Ali Elmoubayed is sprayed with bullets as he drives to Parramatta Local Court to seek a variation of his bail conditions, allowing him to move from the house to a secure high-rise block. A car at the house had been firebombed just days earlier.
May 25, 2025: Granville
Alameddine associate Dawood Zakaria is shot dead and solicitor Sylvan Singh is injured when gunmen ambush a car carrying them and two other men. Police later identify alleged high-ranking Alameddine member Samimjan Azari, who was in the back seat, as the suspected target.
May 20, 2025: Condell Park
Innocent plumber John Versace is executed outside his family’s home in a suspected case of mistaken identity, with police suspecting an organised crime figure who lives in the same street was the intended target.
May 12, 2025: Yennora
Professional MMA fighter Hayder Khudhair, known as the “Silent Assassin”, is shot in the wrist and abdomen after a car stopped suddenly in front of him and a gunman hopped out, opening fire on the truck he was driving.
May 9, 2025: Mount Druitt
More than 30 shots are fired into a home moments after alleged high-ranking bikie Taniela Moeakiola walked through the front door, having arrived from interstate to visit relatives.
May 1, 2025: Marsden Park
Masked gunmen open fire on an innocent family’s home in what police suspect to be an escalation of a tit-for-tat feud between two gangs involved in Sydney’s “postcode wars”.
April 17, 2025: Bankstown
Thi Kim Tran is shot dead, execution-style, by members of a Vietnamese drug cartel who had kidnapped her from her home and sent her partner ransom demands in the minutes before they killed her. Police are investigating whether she was attacked because of her partner’s suspected links to a Victorian organised crime group.
April 16, 2025: Guildford West
A home is targeted in a drive-by shooting in an incident suspected to be linked to an ongoing feud between the Alameddines and the KVT gang, with a former resident of the house linked to one of the groups.
March 22, 2025: Merrylands
A family of five is left shaken after bullets are fired into their home in an attack police suspect to be targeted at a former resident, who had moved out months earlier.
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