Inside 48 hours of spraying ex-Mongols bikie Suleiman “Sam” Abdulrahim with bullets as he left a funeral in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, the 2 masked gunmen suspected of finishing up the hit had fled Australia.
Two months after the capturing, police declare they know who the lads are and the place they’re hiding abroad and say they’re working with different companies to convey them again to face justice in Australia.
Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim in a photograph from his Instagram web page.Credit score:Instagram
Officers from the armed crime squad swooped on a number of properties throughout Melbourne on Monday morning and arrested six individuals believed to have helped the 2 males perform the tried hit on June 25.
One of many males, 18-year-old Yasir Al Qassim, has since been charged with tried homicide, possessing a firearm, theft of a motorized vehicle, and driving whereas suspended.
It’s not but clear what position Qassim performed within the tried hit, however he’s not suspected of being one of many shooters. He’ll seem in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court docket on Monday afternoon.
The opposite 5 – an 18-year-old Lalor man, 20-year-old Meadow Heights girl, 24-year-old Meadow Heights man, 20-year-old Docklands man, and a 19-year-old Greenvale man – have since been launched.
Abdulrahim, a kickboxer, was shot within the chest a number of occasions when his Mercedes four-wheel-drive was peppered with bullets as he left the funeral alongside Field Forest Street. The 30-year-old survived the assault, regardless of being taken to hospital in a vital situation.
Armed crime squad Detective Inspector Mark Hatt mentioned the six individuals arrested had been believed to have performed numerous roles within the capturing, together with co-ordinating the assault and aiding the first offenders, who fled Australia inside 48 hours of the assault.
