A man in a hoodie could hold clues to the unsolved shooting murder of the brother of crime boss Bassam Hamzy.
Ghassan Amoun, 35, was found gunned down in a parked car at South Wentworthville on January 6, 2022, in a killing that fanned the flames of an already raging war between rival crime gangs.
Nearly two years after the western Sydney shooting, police have released CCTV images from the lead-up to the attack in the hope of finding those responsible for the gangland-style killing.
A short time after paramedics were called to the scene of the Rawson Road shooting, a grey Mini Cooper was found alight on nearby Una Street.
The CCTV footage includes vision of the 2012 Mini being parked on the morning of the shooting near a silver 2007 Toyota Aurion, as well as a man seen walking nearby a short time later.
The solidly built man is wearing black tracksuit pants, a black and white hooded jumper and a black face mask.
Further CCTV shows two unknown men, who police say carried out the shooting, later driving the Mini back to Una Street before setting the car alight and leaving in the Aurion.
Investigators are calling for information to help in tracking down the man in the hoodie, as well as the duo seen in the Toyota.
Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said it had been a complex police investigation and the time was right to seek public help.
He appealed for anyone who could identify the man in the hoodie or those in the Toyota to come forward with information.
Det Supt Doherty said the Aurion had still not been found by police.
"The Aurion had been purchased the day before the murder, legitimately purchased, but registered with fraudulent details," he said.
"We believe that was purchased for the sole purpose of being used in this organised crime murder, so that vehicle is really important."
Police said they had established Amoun's killing was a targeted attack that formed part of an ongoing feud between two organised crime networks.
The Hamzy and Alameddine crime families have been engaged in a long-running feud, which has led to the deaths of several people.
Another of Hamzy's brothers, Mejid, was ambushed and killed in 2020 in front of his Condell Park home, while cousin Bilal Hamze was shot dead in an execution-style murder in the Sydney city centre.
