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Wanted ‘shooter’ allegedly caught on camera throwing woman with severed spine into hospital is ‘found hiding on a ROOF’ and arrested
- Kamal Eljamal was arrested for alleged shooting
- He allegedly shot and paralyzed a woman in January.
A man who was filmed throwing a paralyzed woman outside a hospital after he allegedly shot her has been arrested.
NSW Police officers from the Tactical Operations Unit arrested Kamal Eljamal, 33, at Picnic Point, south-west Sydney, around 10pm on Friday after he was allegedly found hiding in a ceiling cavity.
Police allege that Eljamal shot a 37-year-old woman through the roof of a house in nearby Condell Park on January 12.
A man wearing a hoodie and tights, who police said was Eljamal, was later caught on CCTV parking his Mercedes outside Bankstown Hospital to drop the woman off.
She has been left paralyzed by the shot that severed the top of her spinal cord and damaged her internal organs.
Convicted drug dealer Kamal Eljamal (above) has been arrested after allegedly shooting and paralyzing a woman in January.
The man fled on foot before police reached the scene and the injured woman has not cooperated in their investigation.
Eljamal has been charged with allegedly discharging a firearm with intent to cause serious bodily injury, using an unauthorized handgun, possessing an unauthorized prohibited firearm, possessing ammunition without having a license/permit/authority, and failing to maintain a firearm. fire safely.
His case saw the formation of Strike Force Chelston, which renewed a public appeal to locate Eljamal earlier this week, some four weeks after the alleged shooting.
Police said his probation for a prior conviction has also been revoked.
At the time of the alleged shooting, Eljamal was on probation after spending three years in jail for his connection to a drug ring.
Eljamal (left) was on probation at the time of the alleged shooting in which the 37-year-old woman was thrown outside Bankstown Hospital (right)
He was involved in the same ice ring as Mohamed Ghanem, a member of the notorious Skaf rape gang that terrorized Sydney’s women and girls in 2000.
Eljamal pleaded guilty to supplying a commercial quantity of ice to Ghanem after police found drugs in the trunk of his car and his fingerprints everywhere.
He was jailed in 2019 before being released from prison on the condition that he remain on probation until June.
Eljamal was also charged with a drug supply offense in a separate incident and received a suspended jail sentence in 2013.
Eljamal will take on Parramatta Bail Court on Saturday morning.