According to police, a man accused of killing a parent outside a Western Sydney gym last month was apprehended as he tried to board an aircraft to Vietnam.
On March 2, at around 6:30 am, Taha Sabbagh was fatally murdered just as she pulled into the parking lot of the Elite Fight Force gym on Carlingford Street in Sefton.
When the 40-year-old was riding in his automobile with his 12-year-old kid, he was shot up to ten times.
Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty of the Homicide Squad claimed that Le Nghia Andy Pham, 26, will allegedly be accused of getting his passport soon after the incident.
That, in his words, “obviously raised the flag for us to make sure he was not going to flee the country.”
“He was going to be gone for a while,” someone said.
Before it was set on fire, the getaway Mazda3 was driven to Magdella Street in the neighboring suburb of Birrong.
Police claim that Mr. Pham purchased a silver Volkswagen Golf that had been stolen in January and had been equipped with cloned license plates. A week before to the incident, investigators found the car in Birrong.
Police will claim that Mr. Pham drove the shooters in that car to the Mazda3 and stayed “available and actively assisting in the area,” according to Detective Superintendent Doherty.
Detective Superintendent Doherty claimed that “he actively participated in the facilitation of this murder.”
“We are not claiming he was the shooter, but from all his actions, he might as well have been,” the group said.
Police think the incident was planned as a component of a network of organized crime and that “mistaken identity” may have occurred.
It was confirmed by Detective Superintendent Doherty that this was still an open case.
The police officers at the time thought it was “horrendous” that a little youngster saw his father being shot to death.
“It makes me feel nauseous. The perpetrators are brash, cruel, and show little concern for human life.
On Sunday at around 3:30 p.m., Mr. Pham was detained at Sydney Airport and later charged with murder as part of a combined criminal enterprise.
When his case was briefly discussed in Downing Center Local Court today, he did not request bail.
