Family and friends gathered at the Lakemba Mosque before heading to Rookwood Cemetery for Omar Zahed’s funeral after he was executed at Bodyfit Gym, Auburn, on Tuesday night.
His brother and head of the Comancheros, Tarek, remains in serious condition in hospital after being shot 10 times in the gym.
Missing from today’s funeral was Zahed’s other brother, Abdul, who remained in custody on charges unrelated to the shooting after the New South Wales High Court denied him bail.
NSW Police and officers from the Raptor Squad, the group that focuses on gang crime, were highly visible during the funeral proceedings.
It comes as NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Stuart Smith blamed weak laws for organized crime rampant across the country.
In a briefing leaked to Nine Newspapers, Smith told cabinet ministers that current legislation was not enough to crack down on criminal syndicates.
“With the current legislation and the current powers, we’re (police) rocking a pool of noodles and they (crime bosses) have guns,” Smith said.
Former Police Minister David Elliott said the government must be “very, very serious if we are going to attack organized crime.”