A teenager has been charged with the murder of an underworld figure whose death contributed to the creation days later of a major NSW Police taskforce targeting violent organised crime.
Dawood Zakaria, 32, and solicitor Sylvan Singh, 25, were in a Toyota Hilux in Granville when they were shot from a nearby Mercedes in Granville on May 25.
Zakaria was rushed to hospital with critical head injuries but later died, while Singh survived multiple bullet wounds.
Police have claimed alleged Alameddine member Samimjan Azari, who was in the back seat next to his bodyguard, was the target of the shooting.
Taskforce Falcon was created days later with the promise that police and the NSW government would “not tolerate these lawless thugs getting out there with their vendetta against each other and putting in danger members of our community”.
About 10.15am today, detectives searched a home in Guildford and arrested a 19-year-old man.
He was charged with murder, participating in a criminal group and several stealing, drugs and weapons offences.
He’s due to face Parramatta Local Court tomorrow.
