Police are looking for a gunman, after a shooting in Sydney’s south-west last night.
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00:00Police have called this a brutal, violent, execution-style murder here in the streets
00:09of Condell Park in Sydney's south-west.
00:12We've just heard from police at a press conference who say they've been able to gain access to
00:17CCTV footage at the property where the 23-year-old man was allegedly shot at about half-past ten
00:27last night.
00:28They said by watching that CCTV footage, they can see that 23-year-old man returning home
00:34in his ute.
00:35A silver Toyota Corolla hatchback pulled up across the driveway.
00:42A man in a black hoodie and police said what looks like a balaclava got out of that ute.
00:50He allegedly pulled out a small Glock-style handgun and then opened fire with up to ten
00:56rounds of bullets.
00:58The 23-year-old man had four gunshot wounds.
01:03A paramedics and emergency services were called to the scene at about half-past ten and that
01:11man was treated at the scene but really tragically he died.
01:17Police say that they believe a car which looked like a silver Toyota Corolla hatchback which
01:23was found at Fairfield East a short time later, they believe that to be the same car that
01:30was at the property here.
01:32It was found burnt out and police believe that they found a similar handgun inside.
01:39The victim is a 23-year-old man.
01:46Police believe that he lived with his family here in Condell Park.
01:50They believe he was a plumber and that he worked for his family business and police did
01:57say earlier on he had no prior criminal history whatsoever and his family also had none either.
02:08I want to assure the community that at this stage we believe that this is, although an
02:14extremely brutal and violent execution style murder, is a targeted attack.
02:21Now what I can say in this very early stage is that the victim and the holdings that we
02:26have on the victim and his family is that he is not known to police.
02:30He does not have a criminal record.
02:33His family members do not have criminal records.
02:35Julia, what's been happening there at the crime scene?
02:40It's been an extremely sombre scene at the crime scene right here.
02:45There's a huge amount of police and detectives moving in and out of the crime scene.
02:51Police have just told us earlier that they've actually established a strike force to work
02:56with the homicide squad on this case here.
02:59But there's a lot of family moving in and out, hugging each other, grieving.
03:05It's just extremely sad, Gemma.