LIVE: NSW Police are announcing a new taskforce after a spate of public shootings in Sydney. 9News MORE:
The escalating gun crime began on Sunday whenby an unknown shooter.
Ahmed Al Azzam, 25, was in one car and young couple Kaashif Richards, 22, and Achiraya Jantharat, 19, were all injured by the flurry of bullets.The first shooting in Greenacre where three people were injured just 50 metres apart in a flurry of bullets.Three days later on Wednesday,He was shot in the torso and leg while walking to his BMW parked in the driveway.Police are hunting for the gunman involved in Abbas' shooting.
Police said the shooter or shooters fled while the 30-year-old was able to stumble inside and call triple zero.Underworld figure Mahmoud "Brownie" Ahmad was shot dead on the same street in April last year.another man was shot dead in CanterburyA man in his 20s, who is yet to be formally identified, was shot dead on Broughton Street at 2am this morning.Police are hunting for the gunman or gunmen involved in the three shootings, no arrests have been made yet.
As a result of the rising gun violence, NSW Police have launched Taskforce Magnus to investigate the spate of recent shootings and "associated organised criminal activities". "Initial inquiries suggest the common link between the shootings is conflict arising from the alleged supply of prohibited drugs, particularly in the south-west Sydney area," police said.
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