Revesby shooting: Driver drove a kilometre to escape gunmen after car shot up and women killed

A horrified 20-year-old man managed to drive a kilometre from a shooting despite his car being hit by a hail of bullets after gunmen opened fire in a ‘planned’ attack that left two women dead. 

Two women, aged 48 and 39, were killed in the shooting after they were shot dead in the silver Toyota 4WD on Hendy St, Panania in Sydney‘s west on Saturday night.

On Sunday, NSW Police confirmed the driver of the Toyota managed to flee the shooting scene, driving less than a kilometre away to nearby Weston Street at Revesby before emergency services were called. 

The 48-year-old woman, who has been identified as Lameta Fadlallah, died at the scene while a 39-year-old woman was rushed to Liverpool Hospital before she died. 

One resident described the terrifying moment he saw three vehicles rush down the street and emergency services leap into action to try and save the women. 

‘The first police car turned up, the two guys got out, everything calmed down,’ he said.

‘Straightaway, everything calmed own. These two policemen went to work on the lady, and they got out of the car, and they worked so hard on her.’ 

A 16-year-old girl was also in the car and was ‘incredibly shaken’ but not physically injured. 

All four people in the car are understood to be casual associates of one another.

Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, NSW Police Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said the attack appeared to be ‘planned’ with the women targeted because of her ‘past relationships and links’. 

‘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.’

Mr Doherty said the attackers had broken an ‘unwritten law’ amongst organised crime to ‘not touch women or family’.

‘There used to be an unwritten law that you don’t touch family and you don’t touch women. That’s been thrown out of the window, they don’t care anymore,’ he said.

‘They don’t discriminate if you’re male or female. Every rule book has been thrown out, and that is concerning.’

Mr Doherty said the 48-year-old victim was known to police but said ‘it appears the 39-year-old woman sitting next to her was a completely innocent party in all of this’.

Police said it was too soon to confirm whether this shooting is just the latest in an ongoing gangland war, despite having all the usual hallmarks.

Three burnt out cars were found in surrounding suburbs which are all now undergoing forensic examination.

‘This unprecedented, appalling attack needs to be assessed on its own merits,’ Mr Doherty said.

‘This is an organised, methodical, planned murder. That concerns us. We can’t get away from the fact that that’s unusual and unprecedented.’

Police are appealing to the public for help.

‘We want to find those answers out as much as you do. It’s important for us the timeline that occurred. All we can tell you is, it was an incredibly violent, horrendous crime where two women have been shot dead in a car,’ Mr Doherty said.

‘We should be all completely appalled that two women have lost their lives in an unprecedented attack. Whether it is organised crime links or not, that is part of the investigation were looking it.

‘There’s no suggestion of any links to the current conflict so we are treating this on its own merits and the motive is still unclear. We need that information.’ 

A car was found burnt out in the nearby suburb of Panania but police are still working to establish whether there is a link between the two incidents. 

Revesby is in the heart of an ongoing gangland war in Sydney. 

Multiple crime scenes have been established throughout the area with the Homicide Squad and local area command working together to investigate.

Any person with information, dashcam or CCTV is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.