'Common modus operandi': Five people shot in five days as Sydney's gun violence escalates - 9News

Sydney's gun violence is on a terrifying upward trajectory after five people were shot in the city's south-west in the space of just five days in what police believe are linked incidents.

Ahmed Al Azzam, 25, was in one car and young couple Kaashif Richards, 22, and Achiraya Jantharat, 19, were all injured by the flurry of bullets.

The first shooting in Greenacre where three people were injured just 50 metres apart in a flurry of bullets. (Edwina Pickles)

Superintendent Simon Glasser said police believe the "serious" shooting was targeted.

He was shot in the torso and leg while walking to his BMW parked in the driveway.

Mahmoud Abbas, 30, was shot outside a Greenacre home in Sydney's south west on Thursday. (Abbas Jacobs Lawyers)

Police are hunting for the gunman involved in Abbas' shooting. (Flavio Brancaleone)

Police said the shooter or shooters fled while the 30-year-old was able to stumble inside and call triple zero.

"This is clearly a targeted and brazen shooting," Detective Superintendent Adam Johnson.

Underworld figure Mahmoud "Brownie" Ahmad was shot dead on the same street in April last year.

A man in his 20s was shot dead in Greenacre on Thursday. (Brook Mitchell/SMH)

A man in his 20s, who is yet to be formally identified, was shot dead on Broughton Street at 2am this morning.

Police are hunting for the gunman or gunmen involved in the three shootings, no arrests have been made yet.

Taskforce established to crack down on shootings

As a result of the spate of gun violence, NSW Police have launched Task Force Magnus to investigate the spate of recent shootings and "associated organised criminal activities".

The task force is combining existing task forces into one including 70 detectives and 30 additional policing staff to patrol Sydney's south-west.

Police said drugs and gangland rivalry will form part of the task force's investigation.

High-level bikie Alen Moradian was executed in his car in a Bondi Junction carpark. (Supplied)

Since these two brazen daylight crimes, there have been three shooting incidents in Greenacre and Canterbury.

No arrests have been made over the execution of Moradian nor the injury of the Siales.

All five recent shootings investigated are linked, police say

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the past five shootings are believed to be linked.

"It's important that we look for and assume as I said these are linked at this stage until proven otherwise," she said.

"Therefore, if they're linked, there's a common denominator and we need to find that."

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb believes the five recent shootings are related. (9News)

She said it is a "sad indictment" that the streets of the city's south-west are seeing this level of violence as residents live in fear.

Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said the three shootings in the past week, as well as Moradian's execution and the Marrickville hair salon attack, have common links.

"Common modus operandi, common traits in relation to the way that the offences have been committed," Hudson said.

Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said some of the criminals involved in the shootings have been outsourced by gangs (9News)

He added that the offenders in these crimes often "have been outsourced by criminal groups to commit these acts of violence".

"They've then been engaged in destroying their getaway vehicles," he said.

Hudson said these criminals will end up in one of two places: "In the back of a paddy wagon heading to Long Bay or the back of a hearse heading to Rookwood cemetery."

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