Shopper Sailina Nesendra was walking from the shopping centre to the car park when she heard gunshots and then saw security guards trying to revive him. An unidentified man was handcuffed following the fatal shooting at Bankstown Central Shopping Centre, but was later released. Credit:Top Notch Video "All I see is just blood all over their hands," she said. A nurse at the nearby Bankstown Hospital, Fatema Islam, had just parked her car in the shopping centre car park when she heard two gun shots. Initially she thought the sound was equipment falling inside the nearby sports shop.

"Then one lady just came out screaming and crying, 'Gunshot, gunshot,"' she said. A woman is wheeled away by paramedics after the shooting at Bankstown Central Shopping Centre. Credit:Channel Nine Fearing for her safety she said she quickly ran inside the shopping centre, glancing behind her as she ran. "When I looked back nothing was there, not even a car was moving." A victim is taken away after the shooting at Bankstown Central Shopping Centre. Credit:Top Notch Video

Inside the shopping centre "everyone was scared", she said. The gunman fled the car park in a white Mercedes which police later discovered burnt out in Greenacre. A victim is loaded into an ambulance after a shooting at Bankstown Central Shopping Centre. Credit:Channel Nine The injured man, 60, and woman, 31, were treated for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to their lower legs. NSW Ambulance paramedics wheeled them both on stretchers into waiting ambulances. They were taken to Liverpool Hospital where they are in a stable condition.

The home of Walid Ahmad in Punchbowl. Detectives believe the gunman was not working alone. On Friday night no arrests had been made. They also believe that this was very much a targeted attack on Mr Ahmad. Police at the scene of a shooting at Bankstown Central Shopping Centre. Credit:Channel Nine A standover man, drug dealer and convicted killer who was also known in Sydney's underworld circles to talk to police, detectives said they had a number of lines of inquiry.

"This isn't a random shooting. It was clearly targeted towards the man who died," Detective Superintendent David Eardley, from the Bankstown Local Area Command said. "And the information is this gunman did not act alone." One main line of inquiry is the link between Friday's shooting and a fatal shooting at a Mr Ahmad's smash repair shop at nearby Condell Park earlier this month. One man Safwan Charbaji, 32, was shot in the head and chest and died in the confrontation on Ilma Street. Also injured in the gunfire was Abdullah El Masri, 35, who was shot in the face. It is understood a debt was at the root of the confrontation, which erupted between two groups after about half an hour of arguing on the street. Police had wanted to speak with Mr Ahmad over that confrontation but he had not yet been formally interviewed. "We're certainly not ruling out any links - we're looking at all opportunists and all avenues of investigation," Superintendent Eardley said.

Mr Ahmad was jailed in 2005 after fatally shooting Mayez Dany at Greenacre in 2002. The former bouncer was working the door at Sam Ibrahim's Oxford St nightclub when he refused entry to Mr Dany's nephew and broke his jaw in the process. Ahmad later shot Mr Dany five times at a prearranged meeting at a Greenacre auto wreckers after an earlier truce between the two crumbled. He was sentenced to a minimum of seven years jail for manslaughter and assault-related offences.