A hooded shooter wielding an AK‑47‑style weapon fired dozens of rounds from a car at Diamond Venues in Punchbowl, Sydney, where a funeral for a gangland leader killed in Vietnam was to be held. Police found a burnt-out vehicle nearby and the venue was largely empty. The incident highlights ongoing rivalry between the Coconut Cartel and the Alameddine crime family.
A gunman armed with a heavy military weapon has fired multiple shots at a Sydney venue where a funeral had been planned for a fallen gangland boss who was shot dead in Vietnam two weeks ago.shot dead outside a Ho Chi Minh City restaurantPolice on Saturday night had taped off Gillian Place in Punchbowl , where they found a burnt-out car believed to be linked to the shooting,The 24-year-old was suspected of directing the so-called Coconut Cartel in its ongoing war against former allies, the Alameddine crime family.
Lemalu’s family were invited for a service at Diamond Venues in Punchbowl, where the shooting occurred, on Saturday, but the family had cancelled the event and the venue was largely empty when the shots were fired. Dramatic video footage uploaded to SCN Worldstar – an independent media outlet used by members of Sydney’s underworld to share footage of targeted attacks – showed a hooded gunman in the rear seat of a car before he winds down the window.
The gunman, who is being filmed by a person in the front seat, fires dozens of shots in a few seconds using what appears to be an AK-47-style machinegun, the footage shows. Janie BarrettA voice can also be heard to remark: “Are ya done? Let’s f---ing go, lad,” before the car pulls away. The venue was almost empty – it’s believed there was only one person in an inside office, away from the gunfire.
Officers were called to the events venue at the corner of Punchbowl and Canterbury roads following reports of a shooting shortly after 2pm. Advertisement Shortly after, police said officers were called to Gillian Place, also in Punchbowl, where they found an abandoned car on fire. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, but the vehicle was badly damaged. The footage shows a hooded gunman firing multiple shots out a car window in Punchbowl.
Vietnamese police investigating Lemalu’s assassination arrested two Samoan men, Joseph Vaa and Steve Tofa, who told authorities they had been hired by an overseas employer to ambush Lemalu and his associate Sam Sauni, who survived the attack.what they said was the Australian operation of the so-called Coconut Cartel when they arrested several alleged cartel associates police say have helped the group import large amounts of illicit drugs into Australia. Police say the cartel’s alleged onshore leader, Henry Kupa, 27, has facilitated several large-scale drug importations under the direction of fugitive gang leader Anthony Pele.
Pele remains wanted by police on several outstanding warrants and is believed to have been orchestrating the cartel’s operations andThe Coconut Cartel’s other alleged senior figure in exile, Iziah Utai, is also wanted for murder and is believed to have fled Australia. No one was reported injured in the shooting at the Diamond Events venue, where the funeral service was due to be held.
Utai’s father, retired NRL star Matt Utai, was seriously injured in a shooting outside his Greenacre home in February during a series of attacks that detectives believe were targeting his son. The shooting at Punchbowl, as with the shooting of Utai, shows those targeting the Coconut Cartel consider the wider families to be viable targets.
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