Greenacre shooting: Sydney defence lawyer Mahmoud Abbas, 31, is shot outside home as NSW police launch urgent investigation

A leading criminal defence lawyer has been shot outside a house in broad daylight in Sydney’s south-west in a ‘targeted’ shooting.

Emergency services were called to a home on Narelle Crescent, Greenacre shortly before 10.30am on Wednesday after solicitor Mahmoud Abbas, 31, was shot by ‘an unknown person’ in the torso and leg.

He was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition. It’s understood is currently undergoing emergency surgery.

Mr Abbas was gunned down on the same street where underworld figure Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad was shot dead while visiting an associate in April 2022.

Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) has been rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds

The lawyer was shot outside his home in Greenacre on Wednesday morning. Pictured is the crime scene

Footage from the scene shows the street cordoned off with several police cars and an ambulance in attendance.

Another photo shows a conscious Mr Abbas lying on a stretcher being treated by paramedics.

‘Investigations are in their infancy; however it’s believed to be a targeted incident,’ a police statement read.

Local detectives are being assisted by the State Crime Command’s Criminal Groups and Raptor Squad in the investigations.

Shocked residents recalled hearing three ‘popping sounds’.

‘That was it. There was no screaming, nothing else until all the sirens,’ one woman recalled.

Another added: ‘I heard three shots and then about five minutes later I heard a siren, so I knew something had happened.’ 

Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) was treated for gunshot wounds before he was rushed to hospital

Mr Abbas was gunned down in Narelle Crescent, the same street underworld figure Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad was shot dead in April 2022

Mahmoud Abbas (left) is one of Sydney’s leading criminal defence lawyers

It comes just days after three people were shot in the same suburb in an industrial area at 2.15am on Sunday. 

Mr Abbas has represented a range of high profile Sydney identities including former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer and accused members of an ISIS-inspired terror cell. 

He also represented the four men who allegedly abducted a Hamze associate from the northern beaches.

He started his career working for well-known criminal defence lawyer Brett Galloway and is the son of a farmer from the NSW Snowy Mountains. 

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Underworld figure Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad (pictured)  was shot dead while visiting an associate in the same Greenacre street

 Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) has represented a range of high profile Sydney identities