Revesby Panania shooting: Lamet Fadlallah Amy Hazouris killed in Sydney gangland war
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A mother shot dead in the backseat of a car alongside her hairdresser friend in brazen a gangland assassination in Sydney may have ‘known too much’ according to underworld sources.
The brutal execution of Lamet Fadlallah, 48, Amy Hazouri, 39, has sent shockwaves through police ranks amid fears underworld bosses may have ‘torn up the rules’ which once meant women and children were off limits.
Ms Fadlallah was sitting in the backseat of a silver Toyota 4WD outside her house on Hendy St, Panania in Sydney’s west on Saturday night when about a dozen bullets came flying through the window.
She is believed to have been targeted due to her links to organised crime after marrying two of the city’s most infamous drug kingpins with someone close to her revealing: ‘Lam was playing with the big boys and maybe knew too much.’
‘She was right into the life. She would carry the guns for the boys, give alibis when needed and right up till she was killed mixing with gangsters,’ the underworld source who knew Ms Fadlallah told the Daily Telegraph.
‘She always thought she was smart but this is the most dangerous Sydney has ever been. Killing women so openly is next level.’
Ms Hazouri was sitting next to her and is thought to have been ‘collateral damage’ in the vicious attack, simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when she was shot dead.
A 16-year-old girl and 20-year-old man also in the vehicle but miraculously escaped the hail of up to a dozen bullets by speeding off to safety and calling for help.
Lameta Fadlallah (left) is understood to have been the target and Amy Hazouri (right) is believed to have been collateral damage
The 4WD the women were in is towed away behind the crime scene (pictured)
It was already feared that Sydney’s ongoing gang war was out of control with 14 execution-style killings playing out across the city in the past two years – as various Middle Eastern crime gangs and their bikie muscle fight for control of the lucrative drug trade on the heels of the pandemic.
But with victim 15 and 16 now added onto the list of over-worked detectives, police say it’s clear underworld bosses have ‘torn up the rules’ and that the streets have never been so bloody.
Ms Fadlallah had been around underworld figures her entire adult life, marrying Shadi Derbas in the 1990s while in her early twenties.
Derbas was a key member of the Telopea St Gang – coined after the Punchbowl, Western Sydney street which rose to infamy between 1998 and 2000 as a hornets’ nest of Middle Eastern gang activity.
The legacy of that period gave rise to much of the streets gang culture that is causing chaos on Western Sydney streets today.
More recently Ms Fadlallah’s heart was won by 200kg standover man – Helal Safi – who was found dead in a Sydney apartment in January 2021 after suffering a heart attack.
The imposing King’s Cross identity in 2010 survived a jailhouse assassination plot after he was stabbed 42 times by rival gangsters.
His injuries were so severe that he fell into a coma for five months with police crediting his size for keeping him alive.
Bizarrely, her two crime kingpin lovers swapped partners with Safi’s former girlfriend Hilal going on to marry Derbas.
Detectives are investigating the links between the pair and other criminals Ms Fadlalla could have associated with – and whether she had information that others wanted to keep silent.
Safi (pictured) was a ‘major’ underworld player and survived 42 stab wounds in jail in 2010
Police allege the shooting was a targeted attack (a burnt out car found in a nearby suburb)
But in the case Lamet Fadlallah, 48 (pictured), she is believed to have been targeted due to her links to organised crime after marrying two of the city’s most infamous drug kingpins
Ms Hazouri did not have such criminal links and was a dedicated hairdresser who was well respected for her specialised in bridal looks.
She also had a TikTok page that filled with clips of her smiling and dancing to Middle Eastern Music.
Colleagues at her salon in Bankstown shared a moving tribute on Sunday saying they were ‘shattered’ to learn of the untimely death.
‘We are shattered, our heart is broken, you left us too soon,’ the tribute read.
‘May your memory be eternal… until we meet again.’
NSW Police Detective Inspector Danny Doherty fronted camera’s on Sunday acknowledging the shooting was ‘unprecedented’ in that an ‘unwritten law’ among Sydney’s underworld that women and families were off-limits had been broken.
He said police would stop at nothing to catch the perpetrators.
‘This is an appalling attack on two women. They have lost their lives. It was a planned murder, an assassination really, and it’s happened in a public street in Sydney,’ he said.
‘It’s unacceptable by any standards. It’s unprecedented really. And we are determined to get the answers for the family.’
‘They don’t discriminate if you’re male or female. Every rule book has been thrown out, and that is concerning.’
Amy Hazouri (pictured), 39, was in the same car and was also shot. She is believed to have been ‘collateral damage’
A car was found burnt out in the nearby suburb of Revesby, a common method used in gangland hits (pictured)