{"id":689703,"date":"2026-05-23T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:38:24","slug":"new-footage-emerges-after-sydney-underworld-figure-shot-dead-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689703\/","title":{"rendered":"New footage emerges after Sydney underworld figure shot dead in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New footage has emerged of the events surrounding the assassination of Coconut Cartel boss Lorenzo Lemalu in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/vietnam\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Vietnam\">Vietnam<\/a>.Australian authorities are on high alert for retaliatory attacks after the execution, which saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney&#039;s \">Sydney&#8217;s<\/a> gang war spill onto the streets of Ho Chi Minh, 7000 kilometres away.<\/p>\n<p>The 24 year-old was shot dead outside a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b7a8c793-a610-4f63-879e-9c993446238b.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Vietnamese authorities have named two men they want to speak to after a member of an Australian crime family was shot dead. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>Lemalu was a senior figure in that group after cutting ties with a gang linked with Sydney&#8217;s Alameddine family.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffIt&#8217;s their wrestle for the drugs trade which has seen escalating violence across the city.<\/p>\n<p>In the Vietnam footage, a hooded hitman in a hat exits a restaurant circling behind Lemalu and his associates before unleashing several shots from a pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Lemalu ran inside and crashed onto the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating if the shooting is linked to the ongoing feud.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A second member was also reportedly shot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/f86df1e1-7dcf-4d6c-8006-fadd947a8fff.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>In the Vietnam footage, a hooded hitman in a hat exits a restaurant circling behind Lemalu and his associates before unleashing several shots from a pistol. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>Photos show men lying covered in blood on the floor of a restaurant in the aftermath of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Trang Bang Ward Police in Tay Ninh have released images and names of two Australian men they want to speak to in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Retired NSW Police sergeant Glenn Gorick said the assassination was a &#8220;warning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they can find you in Vietnam they can find you anywhere,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New footage has emerged of the events surrounding the assassination of Coconut Cartel boss Lorenzo Lemalu in Vietnam.Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-689703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689703","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=689703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}