Police are hunting a Sydney rapper over a gangland murder where a man was ambushed at a service station and killed by two gunmen.<\/p>\n
Harley Johan, 31, is believed to now be offshore after the daylight shooting of Niddal Acherkouk in Surry Hills in November last year.<\/p>\n
Footage released by police shows the harrowing moments Mr Acherkouk was chased around the inner city services station by his killers and gunned down.<\/p>\n
Mr Acherkouk can be seen running from one of the gunmen, hiding between fuel pumps as shots are fired at him.<\/p>\n
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Footage shows the moment Niddal Acherkouk is chased by gunmen last year. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
The video shows the gunman in a black tracksuit attempting to keep his hoodie over his head as he continues to chase Mr Acherkouk.<\/p>\n
Police believe Mr Acherkouk was returning from dinner at a nearby Turkish restaurant when he was ambushed on Cleveland Street about 7:45pm on November 22.<\/p>\n
Another gunman was previously shown in the footage donning a dark black poncho as he pursued and fatally shot Mr Acherkouk.<\/p>\n
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Fire and Rescue NSW were called to Kensington Road, Kensington after reports a car was alight. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
The burnt out getaway car carrying the gunmen was found in Kensington Road, Kensington, a short time later.<\/p>\n
Police believe the man in the footage, released on Thursday, drove the stolen Porsche from the scene, set it alight and then fled in a stolen Audi in Kensington.<\/p>\n
Mr Acherkouk had links to organised crime and police are investigating what feud may have been behind his killing.<\/p>\n
“This is an outrageous incident and demonstrated a high level of reckless indifference to the public who were around that area at that time,” Police Superintendent Andrew Garner said at the time.<\/p>\n
Mr Johan, who performs under the moniker YC Ewzy, is wanted by the Homicide Squad over the shooting and police believe he fled the country shortly after the attack.<\/p>\n
Mr Acherkouk’s death was the 27th gangland murder since the shootings over the city’s drug war began in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are hunting a Sydney rapper over a gangland murder where a man was ambushed at a service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,81680,44,117389,4277,4905,117390,670],"class_list":["post-183559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gangland","tag-news","tag-niddal-acherkouk","tag-nsw-police","tag-shooting","tag-surry-hills","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}