A young man has been killed in Sydney’s second deadly shooting this week.
NSW Police arrived in Knox Street, Belmore, in the city’s southwest early on Saturday to find a 23-year-old man with gunshot wounds to his torso.
The man, who is yet to be formally identified, died at the scene.
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Police said his wife, who is also heavily pregnant, was transported to hospital.
The street remains closed to traffic while detectives investigate.
NSW Police said while they are not certain of the motive behind the shooting, they’ve “clearly got a war of some sorts around drug supply and organised crime in Sydney, that crosses over into family relationships and the like”.
“As a community, we find this completely unacceptable and it’s pretty horrific for this to take place in the middle of a suburban street.”
The incident is the third fatal shooting in recent weeks and comes only days after two Comanchero bikies were gunned down at a western Sydney gym.
Omar Zahed, 39, was killed and his brother, Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed, 41, was critically wounded at the Body Fit gym in Auburn on Tuesday night.
Those shootings followed the public execution of gangland figure Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad, who was shot in Greenacre in late April.
NSW Police established a new strike force to investigate the shootings.
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