Innocent Trio Shot in Bungled Hit Before Gang Crackdown

Published on December 20, 2023

Three alleged members of a major crime gang are among four people charged with murder after a triple shooting police described as a heinous case of mistaken identity. Police on Dec. 20 swooped on eight people they accused of being part of the Haouchar criminal syndicate after a five-month investigation triggered by a bungled gangland hit in southwest Sydney. Ahmed Al Azzam, 25, was found seriously injured in his parked car after an early morning public shooting at Greenacre on July 23. He died in hospital four days later. Two other people, a 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman, were wounded in a separate car parked about 50m away....

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