Why gangster mum Lametta Fadlallah ‘talked to the cops’ despite knowing she would be a marked woman

A ‘fiercely loyal’ gangster mum who was gunned down on her way to an engagement party ‘talked to the cops’ to protect a loved one – despite knowing she would likely pay for it with her life. 

Lametta Fadlallah was not the type of woman to ‘snitch’, but would do anything in her power to protect those close to her, a friend told Daily Mail Australia.

So when she learned someone she cared deeply about was in serious trouble with the law, she reportedly contacted the NSW Crime Commission.

From that moment on, Ms Fadlallah, 48, was a marked woman. 

The underworld mum knew the price of speaking out – and spent her final days looking over her shoulder.

‘I think she knew it was coming,’ her friend said.

In the months before she was shot dead beside her hairdresser friend Amy Hazouri, 39, Ms Fadlallah installed multiple high-tech security cameras at her Revesby home.

Those very cameras likely captured the moment she was ambushed alongside Ms Hazouri as they made their way to an engagement party on Saturday night.

Gunmen fired at least a dozen bullets into the backseat of the Toyota 4WD they were riding in, killing Ms Fadlallah instantly. Ms Hazouri later died from her injuries.

Lametta Fadlallah was not the type of woman to ‘snitch’, but would do anything in her power to protect the people she loved, a friend told Daily Mail Australia

Pictured: Security cameras out the front of Ms Fadlallah's home

Pictured: Security cameras out the front of Ms Fadlallah's home

In May she paid to have an advanced security system installed with at least three cameras facing onto the street where she was ambushed and shot dead

Ms Fadlallah was no stranger to the rules of the underworld, having been involved in in criminal activity – either through marriage or in her own right –  for many decades. 

She was well aware of the price of speaking to police.

‘As it was put to me, the killers don’t think they have broken any rules to stay away from women and family because that’s not why she was targeted. She is dead because she snitched,’ a friend said.

‘She didn’t deserve to die… She was a good woman and did everything for everyone, but they’re the rules. In their eyes, that’s something worthy of being murdered for.’

Ms Fadlallah had the security cameras installed in May after her white Range Rover was hit at both ends.

‘She was shaken up. Some of her friends would ask her what was going on… what was wrong. But she said nothing, she didn’t want to burden anyone.

‘Lam wasn’t being herself.’ 

She rented a tidy dark brick duplex in Hendy St, Revesby and her 16-year-old son went to a private school in the area

She rented a tidy dark brick duplex in Hendy St, Revesby and her 16-year-old son went to a private school in the area

Amy Hazouri was also shot dead in the attack, while her 16-year-old TikTok star friend sat in the front seat of the car

Amy Hazouri was also shot dead in the attack, while her 16-year-old TikTok star friend sat in the front seat of the car

A teenage TikTok star with more than 100,000 followers and her boyfriend were in the front of the car and witnessed the entire attack. 

CCTV footage from a neighboring property showed the gunmen tapped four times on the car window before firing any shots, reportedly ensuring Ms Fadlallah knew she was about to die.

The two young survivors are said to be traumatised. 

It’s understood the loved one she tried to protect is struggling to come to terms with her death and the sacrifice she made for their safety. 

Sources say they’re hopeful none of Ms Fadlallah’s associates will attempt to retaliate for the hit.

‘The little one is an orphan now, he’s got no mum and no dad,’ one source said of her youngest son, who recently turned 16.

He has a close relationship with Ms Fadlallah’s adult son Ibrahim from her first marriage with reformed gangster Shadi Derbas.

Ms Fadlallah had grown increasingly concerned in recent months that there was a target on her back

Ms Fadlallah had grown increasingly concerned in recent months that there was a target on her back

Ms Fadlallah was killed as she left her house to attend an engagement party at the Massaya Lebanese restaurant

Ms Fadlallah was killed as she left her house to attend an engagement party at the Massaya Lebanese restaurant

Both Mr Derbas and Ms Fadlallah were desperate to keep Ibrahim safe and out of trouble throughout their marriage and in the years since.

They maintained a friendship even when they both moved on with new partners and it’s understood Ms Fadlallah was still considered part of the family.

‘If she ever loved you, she loved you forever,’ a friend said. ‘She wouldn’t give up on anyone.’

The friend also criticised the decision to portray Ms Fadlallah as a serious criminal and gangster in the days since her death. 

She had ‘made some questionable decisions’ but wore her heart on her sleeve and worked with ‘what she had’.

‘She married into the life… That doesn’t make her evil. Knowing evil people doesn’t make you evil yourself.’ 

Her hairdresser friend, Amy Hazouri, was also killed during the attack

Her hairdresser friend, Amy Hazouri, was also killed during the attack

A car was found burnt out in the nearby suburb of Panania shortly after the shooting

A car was found burnt out in the nearby suburb of Panania shortly after the shooting

SYDNEY’S UNDERWORLD WAR

AUGUST 29, 2020 – Fares Abounader, a Comanchero bikie was shot dead in a drive-by attack as his wife and young child were inside their Panania house.

OCTOBER 4, 2020 – Shaylin Zreika – an associate of the Alameddines – is beaten with a metal bar in a street fight in Strathfield

OCTOBER 18, 2020 – Rafat Alameddine’s former home is shot up in a drive-by shooting

OCTOBER 19, 2020 – Mejid Hamzy is shot dead in Condell Park

JANUARY 30, 2021 – Mustafa Naaman is shot dead in Hurstville in a suspected mistaken identity attack on Ibrahem Hamze

JANUARY 30, 2021 – Mejed Derbas is shot dead in Smithfield

FEBRUARY 15, 2021 – Bilal Hamze’s mother Maha Hamze comes under gunfire again in another drive-by shooting at her home in Auburn

MARCH 12, 2021 – A home linked to the Alameddine family in Guildford is shot up

AUGUST 6, 2021 – Alameddine low-level associate Shady Kanj is shot in Chester Hill and found dead by police in Guildford

AUGUST 14, 2021 – Police foil alleged gangland hit on Ibrahem Hamze when they spot stolen Mercedes in North Sydney

OCTOBER 20, 2021 – Salim and Toufik Hamze are gunned down outside their home in Guildford

NOVEMBER 10, 2021 – Drive-by shooting at Guildford home of Alameddine associate. No-one is hurt

JANUARY 6, 2022 – Brother of Bassam Hamzy, Ghassan Amoun, is shot dead at 35 years of age in a brazen daylight execution as he sat in a BMW outside an apartment building in Western Sydney.

APRIL, 4, 2022 – Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad aka ‘Mr Big’ is gunned down in a hail of bullets – after being warned by police that he had a million-dollar bounty on his head for his role in deadly shooting in Greenacre.

MAY 10, 2022 – Comanchero bikies with links to the Alameddine clan, Tarek Zahed and his brother Omar were shot at while training at a gym in Auburn. Omar died at the seen while Tarek miraculously survived after being shot 10 times including in the face.

MAY 14: Rami Iskander, 23, was shot in the torso in front of his pregnant wife and two-year-old child at his home on Knox Street at Belmore just before 4am on Saturday. He is the nephew of Brownie Ahmad

MAY 15: NSW Police launch Strikeforce Erebus to try and tackle the growing problem of gang violence with the Australian Federal Police and intelligence agencies partnering with state cops to stop the bloodshed.

JUNE 28: Former Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu dies in hospital a day after he is hit by 10 bullets in a Rhodes underground carpark

AUGUST 13: Lametta Fadlallah, 48, and her hairdresser friend Amy Hazouri, 39, are shot dead in a silver Toyota 4WD outside her house on Hendy St, Panania in Sydney’s west. 

AUGUST 14: Police confirm Ms Fadlallah was the likely target of the assassination – making her the first woman directly targeted in the underworld gang war. Ms Hazouri is described as an innocent victim and collateral damage.

AUGUST 16: Teenage TikToker is identified as the surviving passenger in the car where Ms Fadlallah and Ms Hazouri were gunned down. She was reportedly good friends with Ms Hazouri and was attending a party with the women to promote the venue on her social media accounts. 

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