Intense moment desperate neighbours try to save the life of David Khou who was gunned down near in Canley heights home in Asian gangland hit

Disturbing images have emerged of the final moments of a man shot in a ‘brutal’ attack.

As his life passed by, David Khou’s family and neighbors desperately performed CPR on him before emergency services arrived, but he could not be saved.

Khou, 31, was shot outside his home in front of young children in Sutherland St, Canley Heights in Sydney’s south-west. Sunday just before 6:50 p.m.

On Monday, detectives revealed the 31-year-old had links to Asian crime gangs and was a known target for underworld rivals.

After being shot several times while sitting on the passenger side of a car, Khou collapsed in a neighbor’s driveway as his mother and other locals frantically tried to stop the bleeding.

“He lost a lot of blood, but it was too much for us,” a neighbor said Nine news.

Another added: “I heard the bang, bang, bang about three times. I saw blood and I saw the weapons, so that means it’s serious.”

The brutal murder took place in front of ten children, with one shocked father saying his ‘children should not have to experience something like this’.

Chief Inspector Danny Doherty branded the fatal shooting as brutal and unacceptable.

“It’s a very sad, tragic situation, despite what its history may have been or despite what its ties are,” he said.

“It’s terrible for his family.”

He also revealed that Khou had links to Asian organized crime syndicates and was involved in the illegal drug trade in Sydney.

“People don’t always live the high life and don’t always have the bling, but there are consequences when you start involving an organized crime network,” Det Supt Doherty said.

“And they end up dead on the streets of Sydney.”

A short time after the shooting, the suspected getaway car, a white Audi sedan, was set on fire and destroyed in a park in nearby Wakeley.

“I didn’t get too close because of the mini explosions coming from the car,” said one resident.

“And I was a little scared, so I didn’t want to get any closer.”

Police remained at the scene of the shooting Monday, with detectives going door to door to speak with potential witnesses about what they saw and heard.

Khou’s car was also taken for forensic examination.

One concerned resident said he was “scared, especially when it’s not something I would personally expect.”

The suspected gunman is still on the run on Monday evening, despite a second getaway car being found in nearby Bossley Park earlier in the day.

Police executed a search warrant at a nearby home on Monday morning as part of Strike Force Loughrea, which was set up by the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad with detectives from Fairfield City Police.

The 33-year-old man is accused of being an accessory to the murder

He will spend the night in custody before appearing at Parramatta Local Court on Tuesday.

Acting Chief Inspector Jason Pietruszka said the shooting was a “targeted attack.”

“This is not a random shooting,” he said.

“An unknown individual approached from the road, went up to the driver’s side window and fired several shots into the window.”

The Canley Heights killing comes just over a month after Comanchero employee Nadal Acherkouk was shot dead in the parking lot of a busy gas station.

Police were called to Baptist Street in the inner-city suburb of Surry Hills after gunshots were reported just before 8pm on Friday, November 22.

Police found Acherkouk, 31, near the parking lot of a BP gas station on the corner of Crown Street and Cleveland Street.

The killers wore Batman-style capes as they ran towards him and sprayed him with bullets.

Acherkouk had links to underworld organizations in Sydney and was known to police at the time of his death.

In August, an underworld figure known as the ‘Angel of Death’ was shot dead in a hail of bullets in Sydney’s west as police admitted there were “too many suspects and too many motives” for the gang.

Tarek Ayoub, 29, was peppered with up to seven bullets on Harold Street in Parramatta at around 3.30am on August 26.

A manhunt was launched for at least two gunmen who reportedly fled the scene in a stolen Audi sedan before setting it on fire at around 3.45am on a street about 4km from the crime scene.

Witnesses saw them running from the burning car before fleeing in a white SUV.

Det Supt Doherty said Ayoub was visiting a member of staff when he was shot a ‘numerous number of times’ in the car park.

He said Ayoub was a known underworld associate with an extensive criminal background and his death was “no surprise” to detectives because he “lived and died by the sword.”