Notorious crime boss Mahmoud 'Brownie' Ahmad, 39, has been shot dead outside a home in Sydney's southwest on Wednesday night.
Located in Sydney’s eastern suburb of Rushcutters Bay, the park is frequently filled with children, families and picnickers enjoying the waterfront. The gangland figure was told to abandon his plans to visit Rushcutters Bay Park with his children. Stream more Australian news with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place.
Gunman remains on the run after 'incredibly brazen and callous murder' in Greenacre on Wednesday night.
He was told he was a “marked man” and was in imminent danger. “His life was always in danger.” “He continued to associate with people of the criminal milieu and did not want to hide,” Doherty said. They found Ahmad “dying in the street” and performed CPR but he was not able to be saved. “The amount of people with Ahmad at the time in the street – it’s an absolute miracle that no one else got hit. The victim was informally identified as Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad.
The Greenacre man had recently returned from his native Lebanon and was warned by detectives that he was a marked man with a $1 million bounty on his head.
They used to blow up fireworks now and then; we thought it was fireworks so I went to have a look,” she said. Detectives are now investigating whether his death was related to the ongoing conflict in south-western Sydney between the Hamzy and Alameddine families. I saw the four-wheel-drive reverse, then they sped off really fast. “He continued to associate with people that were part of the criminal milieu and he did not want to hide. His life was always in danger. Ahmad fled to Lebanon in in 2016 when a warrant for his arrest for the murder of Safwan Charbaji at a smash repair business in Condell Park that year was issued.
Crime figure Mahmoud "Brownie" Ahmad was released from prison just six month ago but he was so embedded in Sydney's underworld he was only ever going to end ...
Unfortunately for him he's in a morgue as we speak." "He was going to end up in a slab in the morgue or he was going to end up back in jail in a cell. Ahmad fled to Lebanon after the shooting but on his return in 2017 admitted to police he had fired a "warning shot" in the confrontation. A judge remarked on Ahmad's sentencing that he "bitterly regretted" his role in the incident and that it the time it had appeared his life was "proceeding well ... perhaps for the first time". It was the second time he had left the country in fear of his life, but there wouldn't be a third. After a tip-off saved him from an "imminent daylight hit" in October, he left Australia to spend time in his native Lebanon.
Police told Ahmad and his brother as recently as last week there was a price on their heads and they should lie low. But Brownie was gunned down in ...
He was released on parole late last year. “Unfortunately for [Mahmoud], he’s in the morgue,” Doherty said on Thursday. Get it here. “He’s been warned in the past he was a marked man and as a result he didn’t heed those words ... he was going about his normal business without a care in the world,” Doherty said. Mahmoud had fled to his native Lebanon in 2016 when a warrant for his arrest was issued for the murder of Safwan Charbaji at a smash repair business in Condell Park that year. “Obviously, the intention was to kill him and they were going to do that by firing as many bullets at him as they could.”
Gangland figure Mahmoud "Brownie" Ahmad's refusal to listen to police has cost him his life after he was executed by one or multiple gunmen overnight.
“His life was always in danger. He was either going to end up on a slab in a morgue or he’s going to end up back in jail and unfortunately for him he’s in the morgue.” Stream more local news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. “Obviously the intention was to kill him and they were going to do that by firing as many bullets at him as they could, and they were successful in their intention," he said in a press conference on Thursday. Mahmoud Ahmad defied "imminent danger" warnings from police and continued to live his life in Sydney with the threat of a $1 million bounty on his head catching up with the underworld figure overnight as he was peppered with bullets.