Ex-UFC fighter Suman Mokhtarian gunned down while out for walk in Sydney
A senior police officer said ‘it’s very brazen and it’s a shame that this is happening in our community’
Former UFC fighter Suman Mokhtarian was gunned down in a “brazen” shooting while on an early evening walk in Sydney, police said, months after surviving an attempt on his life.
The 33-year-old was shot dead in a “targeted” attack in Riverstone, a suburb in Sydney’s northwest, on Wednesday evening, New South Wales Police said.
A short time after the shooting, two cars were found on fire in different locations, a hallmark of recent organised crime hits that have rattled the city.
“It’s very brazen and it’s a shame that this is happening in our community,” NSW Police Superintendent Jason Joyce said.
“You’d want to think that in a residential area that people could wander the streets at that time of [early] night and be safe, but we do believe it’s a targeted attack,” he said.
Local media reported that Mokhtarian had survived an attempt on his life last February, when a gunman fired on him outside a gym in Sydney’s west.