SYDNEY, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Police said that more than one gunman is on the run after a man with links to organized crime was shot dead in Sydney's west in the early hours of Monday morning.
Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) on Monday morning identified Tarek Ayoub, a 29-year-old underworld identity nicknamed the "angel of death", as the victim of a fatal shooting in Sydney's western suburbs in the early hours of Monday.
Emergency services were called to a unit complex in the major suburb of Parramatta, approximately 20 km west of Sydney's central business district. Upon arrival at the scene, ambulance crews found Ayoub in the car park of the property with multiple gunshot wounds. Paramedics administered treatment but he died at the scene.
Speaking at a press conference, NSW Police Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said Ayoub was visiting an associate when he was killed in an "execution-style" targeted attack carried out by more than one gunman.
"He was shot down in a hail of bullets in the car park," he said.
Doherty said that Ayoub was a well-known organized crime identity with a long history of violence.
Shortly after the shooting, emergency services were called to a car fire approximately five km from the scene of the shooting where officers found a car, which had been reported stolen, engulfed in flames.
Police said that two men were seen leaving the scene in another car and that investigations are underway into whether the two incidents are connected. ■
