Killing won't lead to reprisals: police

(AAP) - Police investigating the brazen shooting of alleged crime boss Abdul Qadier Darwiche have no fear of reprisal attacks, despite him once being involved in a bloody south-west Sydney turf war.

The 37-year-old Condell Park man died at the wheel of his car after being sprayed by
gunfire at a service station in Bass Hill at about 3.30pm (AEDT) on Saturday.
Police said Darwiche and another man had been involved in an argument at the service
station on the corner of Miller Rd and the Hume Hwy.
Darwiche is then said to have got into his Mitsubishi Triton, before being shot
numerous times with an automatic weapon as he drove out of the station.
Darwiche's 4WD continued across a median strip on Miller Road, and into a park where
it hit a tree.
Paramedics found him slumped dead over the wheel, police said.
The shooting has sparked concerns a turf war involving the Darwiche family may be
reignited.
Darwiche and his younger brother Adnan "Eddie" Darwiche were once involved in a drug
feud with a rival family the Razzaks, which led to a number of shootings and Adnan
being jailed for murder.
In 2006 Adnan was given a life sentence for the double murder of Ziad Razzak and
young mother Mervat Nemra. He and three associates had, three years earlier,
peppered a Greenacre home with bullets in a drive-by shooting.
Abdul Darwiche was himself found not guilty in 2006 of the attempted murder of
Farouk "Frank" Razzack.
In September 2007, police publicly named Abdul Darwiche as the head of a "criminal
syndicate".
Despite the bloody history between the two alleged drug families, there was no
indication the Bass Hill shooting was a continuation of the war, which began in
2001, Detective Inspector Chris Olen said.
There were also no fears of reprisal, he said.
"I've got no information to suggest that anything of that nature (retribution) that
would give me rise for concern," said Det Insp Olen, from the State Crime Command's
Homicide Squad.
"That (the Ziad Razzak shooting) was 2003.
"Some significant time has passed since (then) where there hasn't been any violence
in respect to (the Darwiche and Razzak family), and I've got no concerns in that
regard."
However, Det Insp Olen said Darwiche's `victimology' would form part of the
investigation.
"The history of the victim, his associates, and people who may have had a grudge
against him," he said.
Strike Force Solomon, comprising 21 detectives from the Homicide Squad, Middle
Eastern Crime Squad and Bankstown Police, had been set up to investigate Saturday's
killing.
Det Insp Olen said a full crime scene examination had been completed, while police
would now forensically examine Darwiche's 4WD.
He said he was optimistic police would "get a result sooner rather than later".
The shooting of Darwiche may have been witnessed by his children, who were dining at
a nearby restaurant, Det Insp Olen revealed.
"I can indicate that there were family members present and nearby - my understanding
is that they were in a restaurant nearby," he said.
"I understand some of the children were his children. There was upwards of six
children (but) I'm not sure how many were his."
Police appealed for public assistance in finding the silver Honda CRV in which the
killer fled the scene moments after the shooting.
Anyone with information about the shooting has been urged to contact Crime Stoppers
on 1800 333 000.