NSW: Family feud shootout killed innocent truck driver

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2010
NSW: Family feud shootout killed innocent truck driver

SYDNEY, April 21 AAP - When two warring families planned a shootout in the carpark
of a suburban Sydney KFC, passing truck driver Bob Knight paid the ultimate price, police
allege.

As the 66-year-old Canberra man drove along Milperra Road at Milperra about 10.40pm
on June 25, 2009, he was hit in the head by a stray bullet and died.

Almost 10 months after the shooting, police on Wednesday charged six people - four
men and two youths - with Mr Knight's murder.

"What we have discovered through the investigation is there were two family groups
involved and friends of theirs," homicide squad Detective Inspector Pamela Young told
reporters on Wednesday.

"The allegation is that they met at the KFC carpark to fight each other, we allege
to fire shots at each other, (and) a stray bullet has left the KFC carpark and travelled
so far that it did hit Bob Knight as he was driving his truck."

Two men arrested at Greenacre on Tuesday night - Mustafa Mariam, 32, and Tarek Elvadar,
25 - faced Burwood Local Court on Wednesday charged with Mr Knight's murder and a charge
of affray.

Neither applied for bail and it was formally refused.

The others charged are expected to face Bankstown Local Court and Parramatta Children's
Court later on Wednesday.

Insp Young said three more people were expected to be charged with Mr Knight's murder
but are yet to be arrested.

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