a melbourne-based bikey boss gunned down
tarek zahid and his brother omar tarek
zarhed is in a critical condition at
westmead hospital his brother omar left
dead at the scene
so tuesday night about 8 30 phones all
around sydney's underworld were lighting
up i started getting calls you started
getting calls another shooting
this time the the targets were big names
tariq zarhad the sergeant-at-arms of the
common chair of bikey gang um
australia's most powerful criminal
organization according to some and his
brother omar so they were at the body
fit gym in auburn on busy parramatta
road
in western sydney it's about eight
o'clock 805 exactly
standing in the foyer
two gunmen have pulled up outside
jumped out and unloaded
we believe around 20 shots into the
foyer of the gym through the windows
smashing it all up
but
hitting taric and omar now tarik was
shot 10 times pretty much everywhere
body
head stomach arms legs and even
through the eye that shot to his head we
believe him in the eye
on our arrival we found two male
patients approximately 25 to 30 years of
age with multiple gunshot wounds to
multiple regions of their bodies but
miraculously he has been taken hospital
and to this point is still alive
although we're not sure exactly what
kind of condition he is in um but omar
died at the scene he had a heart attack
um he was also a common sharer like
tariq and it just got out of jail last
year yeah like a number of victims rep
brownie
he'd only just got out of jail
what surprised uh i think a few people
ever we talked about you know the bounty
that was had been placed on tarik's head
and i think you know tarik's been you
know a lot of people just said that he
he you know he was a target for for a
year or two i got to admit i never
thought that
anyone would have the balls to to knock
off the sergeant of arms soon to
possibly be the president and close
associate of mark bottles
to take him out i was and i think it
shocked a lot of people
well we talk a lot about mark butler
because he is this massive international
drug kingpin he just
you know he's a massive deal
internationally he just happens to be
australian he's a sydney boy um and he's
a former comanchero um but in he's been
living overseas for a number of years
but in new south wales it's really been
the tara head show hasn't it when it
comes to the commenceros yeah he
literally everybody knows that uh he and
and battles are close and the tarik is
and he's a big figure tariq was a very
big figure he was physically imposing i
love the fancy clothes
and the bling you know he loved his
designer designer clothes so he was
he became quite a figure so who would
want to kill him
well you know
listen as long as your arm that's right
you know any any
any
figures such as a the sergeant-at-arms
of the common giro who are involved in a
number of conflicts major drug dealing
now added to that there's an internal
uh battle going on
because the national presidency
spot seems to be vacated yeah and
carrick was considered the prime runner
for that so could there be somebody
there
quietly ambitious that maybe wanted
taric out of the way or was it you know
he's been linked to rumors of drug reps
yep that again could have made him a
target there's also the fact that the
lone wolf
have lost their leader eric and that
there's a bit of a vacuum there and a
number had supposedly gone over to and
patched over to
the commentary
and maybe that led to a disgruntled lone
wolf thinking that they're stealing
their club
so
i mean the day before this shooting
happened we wrote a story in the paper
about
you know intelligence that police had
gathered between bassam hemsey who's a
massive
figure in new south wales crime and and
his brother gasson moon who was gunned
uh gunned down earlier yeah in january
and intelligence police had about you
know potential threats to take from them
now they were a little while ago so
but it just goes to show that
this isn't a new phenomenon when it
comes to the threats aren't new there
was talk that omar um
his brother was involved in a brawl at
the cross
on the saturday night
which you know
wouldn't have led to the shooting within
days you'd imagine because this again
was a very
well you know it seemed to be quite well
organized
hit there was two stolen cars high-end
cars
the one thing a lot of people are asking
is
why did tarik just keep going to that
gym i think he'd been told that there
were people had told him
change up your
your routine you know it's basics 101
for
if you've got a target on you on your
head basically doing the same thing but
he did yeah exactly and like you said we
sparked people in in the hours after
he'd been shot who
they were almost angry that he hadn't
listened to them they told him to change
his routine
they said you know don't people know
which gym you go to change it up and he
hadn't listened but
that's nothing new so we sit here today
talking about tarik zara head and omar
zaha had been killed but we sat here two
weeks ago
talking about mumwood brownie ahmed who
was gunned down in green acre in western
sydney another massive gangland figure
we'd written about having a bounty on
his head yeah
and
same thing with him you know police had
warned him told him to go overseas
um his mates had told him to change the
kind of car he driven because everybody
knew what he drove and they could spot
him a mile off
whether arrogant or ignorant yeah he
didn't do it and it's
now cost two men their lives in the past
fortnight and 12 people their lives in
the past two years so the interesting
thing now is what everyone's talking
about is
what will happen now you've got two
high-profile figures in taric and omar
who have been shot one killed
close associates of mark butler's now
everyone would expect
he will come out guns blazing
to try and avenge the shooting
but if it's internal i think you'll find
the guns will be silent so omar's death
is the 12th that we've seen in the past
two years
uh linked to gangland crime on sydney
streets it's just rising and rising but
there's a common theme with almost every
single one isn't there well it started
with ferris abbot nader a common former
common churro shot at uh outside his
house
uh he was very close associated of mick
howie former boss of the common churro
believed to be
going over to the bandito
and so
with all these shootings the common
thread is the common cheero
right up until the shooting on tuesday
of two common chiro so up until then
they were the ones believed to be behind
the shootings the intelligence was
suggesting and now somebody's hit back
and one of the biggest issues for police
has been the fact that the commander
were already a massive
organization in their own right but in
recent years they've joined up with um
the alamedan network which has become a
name that we've written about i couldn't
tell you how many hundreds of times the
merging of these two groups is really a
major problem not just for the police
but for their rivals like the hamzies
wiped out almost let's face it um the
ahmed's a a
once very very powerful family are no
longer anywhere near who they were there
are still some other families out there
keeping low profile as you would
but you wonder when there'll be a
and perhaps
those families on the outer might join
together because they're getting
squeezed by by this almost this
conglomerate you know this monolith of
the common shiro and the alamedans you
know quite frightening combination
you