Auburn home of alleged Brothers For Life Parramatta chapter boss Omar Ajaj targeted by gunmen who fire five shots into car

Ajaj, 24, who was wounded during the fatal shooting of his cousin Mahmoud Hamzy at Revesby Heights in November is behind bars charged over the kneecapping of Alex Ali in October 2012.

He was arrested in a wave of raids targeting the BFL leadership in November.

Five shots were fired into a black Toyota sedan parked at Myall St, Auburn, home before midnight with at least one shot hitting the front gate.

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Ajaj’s parents and adult sister, in her 20s, were in the home at the time but were uninjured.

This morning a man inside the home said everything was “ok” and refused to answer the door.

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Police confirmed the home had links to a person known to police and the family was cooperating with investigators.

The sedan has been taken away for forensic examination.

Neighbour Harry said the shooting had shaken the street.

“I couldn’t sleep all night because the police were everywhere, I didn’t see anything,” he said.

“It was quick maybe six or seven shots. It was scary. I don’t know why they are shooting for. The children are scared.”

Neighbours said Omar had lived at the home and the family was well-known in the street.

One neighbour, who didn’t want to be named, said they heard the shooting at precisely 11.55pm.

“I heard four gun shots and a car speed away. That was five to 12 and the cops were here by five past 12” she said.

The neighbour also said a black Mercedes E63 parked at the back of the home was the same car which had MEOCS, the acronym for the Middle Eastern Crime Squad, plates removed when it was seized after Mahmoud Hamzy’s slaying in November.

“Yeah the MEOC car. The MEOC plates are off it. It was towed back three or four weeks ago. We are so used to cars being towed here,” they said the Ajaj family are believed to run a local fruit shop, cafe and waffle shop and have owned the single-storey brick home for more than 30 years.

After the Revesby Heights shooting Ajaj was admitted to Liverpool Hospital under an alias where he had a 10cm steel rod put in his right femur permanently.

His right knee was shattered, he has undergone numerous surgeries and is traumatised by seeing his cousin, Mahmoud Hamzy, shot dead when he was hit in the leg and stomach, his lawyer told a court in November.

Meanwhile, two more men have been arrested and charged over a series of shootings in Sydney linked to the notorious Brothers 4 Life gang.

Police say the latest arrests bring to 15 the number of people charged over last year’s shootings, in which a 13-year-old girl and six men were shot and injured.

Shortly after 6.30am yesterday detectives attached to Strike Force Sitella arrested a 23-year-old man at a home in Miller, in Sydney’s southwest.

It’s alleged he was involved in the shooting of a property at Eagle Vale on August 2 last year.

The man appeared in Campbelltown Local Court on charges involving break and enter, and was denied bail to reappear on April 16.

On Monday a 65-year-old man was arrested at a Pendle Hill property where police executed a search warrant and seized a rifle cartridge and cannabis plants.

It’s alleged the man sold a prohibited firearm to a senior member of the Brothers for Life Blacktown faction last year. He appeared in Parramatta Local Court on Tuesday on firearms and drug charges, where he was granted conditional bail to reappear on March 20.

Strike Force Sitella was formed to investigate seven shootings carried out in Sydney between July and November last year.

In one incident at a home in Blacktown a 13-year-old girl was shot in the back.

Detectives have previously alleged a battle between the Brothers for Life gang’s Blacktown chapter and its Bankstown sister chapter was behind the spate of shootings.