Search for gunman after shots are fired into a home connected to a notorious Sydney crime gang - just weeks after a member of a rival group was killed alongside his father in the same suburb

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A member of the Alameddine crime gang has been targeted in a drive-by shooting just down the road from where a father and son in a rival gang were killed in their driveway three weeks ago.

Police were called to the intersection of Guildford Road and Robertson Street, Guildford, in Sydney's west, shortly after 11pm on Wednesday following reports shots had been fired.

Projectile casings and several bullet holes were found in the front of a nearby house.

Several people were inside the house at the time but were unharmed. 

The latest Guildford shooting comes after Salim Hamze, 18, (right) and his father Toufik, 64, (left) were shot dead on nearby Osgood Street on October 20

Shots were fired outside a home near the  intersection of Guildford Road and Robertson Street (pictured) in Guildford late Wednesday night

An abandoned vehicle was found alight 1.4 kilometres away in Bennett Road, South Granville, a short time later.

Crime scenes were established at both locations and forensically examined by specialist police.

Inquiries are continuing and police are investigating if the two incidents are linked but the attack appears to be the latest escalation of the tit-for-tat reprisal shootings.

The Guildford intersection is just 1.7 kilometres from where Salim Hamze, 18, and his father Toufik, 64, were shot dead outside their home in nearby Osgood Street on October 20. 

Salim Hamze and his father Toufik were killed in a hail of gunfire as they got into their ute to go to work outside their home in Guildford

The pair were cut down in a hail of gunfire as they got in the ute to go to work. 

Salim became a target after he got embroiled in Sydney's gang life, but his father was believed to have been an innocent victim caught in the crossfire.

The teenager was said to have been warned he was on a hitlist as revenge for a drive-by shooting at Assad Alahmad's home, brother-in-law of rival crime boss Rafat Alameddine.

The shooting was the latest chapter in the increasingly bloody underworld feud between the Alameddine and Hamze crime gangs. 

Police foiled an alleged attempt to murder Ibrahem Hamze (second from right) when a stolen Mercedes was spotted on North Sydney on August 14

It came just weeks after police foiled an alleged attempt to murder Ibrahem Hamze when a stolen Mercedes was spotted on North Sydney on August 14.

A week earlier Alameddine low-level associate Shady Kanj was shot in Chester Hill and found dead by police in Guildford.

And in June, leading crime boss Bilal Hamze shot dead in Sydney's CBD in a brutal gangland execution as he left a city centre restaurant while on a date.

Bilal, who had a distinctive tear-shaped tattoo under his right eye, was walking along Bridge St when up to 10 shots were fired at him from a stolen black Audi.

He died a short time later in St Vincent's Hospital. 

State Crime Command Director Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett admitted police faced an army of mercenaries carrying out executions to order now. (Pictured, detectives investigate the execution of Bilan Hamze in Sydney's CBD in August)

The war dates back almost a decade after rival chapters of the Brothers For Life bikie gang - run by Bassam Hamzy from his Supermax prison cell - began a deadly feud. 

Detectives now say the war has spread beyond the families that spawned it, and they are battling professional killers recruited by the gangland warlords to execute their enemies with precision.

Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett, State Crime Command Director, admitted they faced an army of mercenaries carrying out executions to order now.

'There's no doubt that there's guns for hire in south-western Sydney,' he said. 'There's no doubt that these crime families are using those people.

'We're doing our best to monitor and manage them as best we can and we're having significant success.'

Detectives say the war has spread beyond the families that spawned it, and they are battling professional killers recruited by the gangland warlords to execute their enemies with precision. (Pictured, police at the scene of the Guildford shooting in October)

He added: 'These feuds relate to family disagreements or relate to drug trafficking. They relate to organised crime territory.

'There's a number of people who are in our southwestern part of Sydney who are more than happy to deal with solve their problems with violence.

'We've had this going on for a number of years now - tit for tat targeted shootings. I'm not shying away at all from the fact that we've got a significant issue in our south-western suburbs.'

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers. 

THE TIMELINE OF SYDNEY'S BLOODY GANGLAND WAR

MAY 2007 - Prison officers find notes in Bassam Hamzy's Lithgow jail cell referring to the Brothers 4 Life bikie gang for the first time

OCTOBER 2012 - Tensions between the Bankstown and Blacktown chapters of B4L blow up with the shooting of Yehye Amood, 27 and Bassim Hijazi. Amood is killed but Hijazi survives and flees to Lebanon

MARCH 9, 2013 - Bassam Hamzy's aunt Maha Hamze is shot eight times in the legs, but survives, in a reprisal attack for her son Ashkan Rajabi demanding money from another gang member's mother

JULY 2013 -  Ashkan Rajabi and Bilal Hamze survive an assassination attempt in Wenworthville

OCTOBER 29, 2013 - Mahmoud Hamzy - cousin of Bassim Hamzy - shot dead in Revesby Heights. Five B4L members were later charged with the murder

NOVEMBER 3, 2013 - B4L member Michael Odisho shot but survives 

NOVEMBER 4, 2013 - Masood Zakaria - an Alameddine associate - survives shooting attempt but his 13 year old sister is injured by shotgun pellets

DECEMBER 16, 2013 - Standover man Joe Antoun shot dead in Strathfield

JANUARY 1, 2014 - Farhad Qaumi shot at as his yacht pulls into Rose Bay Marina in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs (pictured) after the NYE fireworks

DECEMBER 11, 2014 - Bassam Hamzy's mother Lola Hamzy was shot through her front door in Auburn

APRIL 9, 2016 - Safwan Charbaji - a relative of Alameddine associates - shot dead outside a smash repair shop in Condell Park

APRIL 29. 2016 - Wally Ahmad - associate of the Hamzy family - shot dead in Bankstown 

OCTOBER 25, 2016 - Hamad Assad executed in Georges Hall. Assad was suspected of killing Ahmad 

MARCH 20, 2017 - Hell's Angel bikie Kemel Barakat is shot dead at home in Mortdale

MARCH 28, 2017 - Emed Sleiman is shot dead in his car park in Auburn. He was suspected of killing Barakat

OCTOBER 4, 2020 - Shaylin Zreika - an associate of the Alameddines - is beaten with a metal bar in a street fight in Strathfield

OCTOBER 18, 2020 - Rafat Alameddine's former home is shot up in a drive-by shooting

OCTOBER 19, 2020 - Mejid Hamzy is shot dead in Condell Park

JANUARY 30, 2021 - Mustafa Naaman is shot dead in Hurstville in a suspected mistaken identity attack on Ibrahem Hamze

JANUARY 30, 2021 - Mejed Derbas is shot dead in Smithfield

FEBRUARY 15, 2021 - Bilal Hamze's mother Maha Hamze comes under gunfire again in another drive-by shooting at her home in Auburn

MARCH 12, 2021 - A home linked to the Alameddine family in Guildford is shot up 

JUNE 17, 2021 - Bilal Hamze is shot dead outside Mr Wong's restaurant in Sydney's CBD

JUNE 18, 2021 - Bilal Hamze was killed in a "brutal, execution-style murder" in Sydney's CBD

AUGUST 6, 2021 - Alameddine low-level associate Shady Kanj is shot in Chester Hill and found dead by police in Guildford 

AUGUST 14, 2021 -  Police foil alleged gangland hit on Ibrahem Hamze when they spot stolen Mercedes in North Sydney 

OCTOBER 20, 2021 - Salim and Toufik Hamze are gunned down outside their home in Guildford 

NOVEMBER 10, 2021 - Drive-by shooting at Guildford home of Alameddine associate. No-one is hurt

JANUARY 6, 2022 - Brother of Bassam Hamzy, Ghassan Amoun, is shot dead at 35 years of age in a brazen daylight execution as he sat in a BMW outside an apartment building in Western Sydney.

APRIL 27, 2022 - Kingpin Mahmoud 'Brownie' Ahmad is gunned down in a hail of bullets in Greenacre after being warned by police he had a million-dollar bounty on his head

MAY 10, 2022 - Comanchero bikies with links to the Alameddine clan, Tarek Zahed and his brother Omar are gunned down at an Auburn gym

MAY 14 - Brownie Ahmad's nephew Rami Iskander, 23, is shot dead in front of his pregnant wife and two-year-old child

 

Police at the scene of the double murder of Salim and Toufik Hamze in Guildford