New South Wales Police have arrested a man over the gangland shooting of Bilal Hamze in Sydney’s CBD.
Hamze was brutally gunned down after dining at Kid Kyoto restaurant in June last year despite being warned by police and underworld figures that there was a $1 million bounty on his head.
Police officers travelled to Silverwater prison on Tuesday to charge a 32-year-old man reported to be Samuel John Rokomaqisa over the brutal murder.
Rokomaqisa was already in prison for unrelated offences and he will face Downing Centre Local court on Tuesday.
The police will allege that just before 10:30pm on Thursday June 17 last year Rokomaqisa was in a black Audi when he fatally shot Hamze just after he left the restaurant.
Emergency services were called to the intersection of Bridge and Pitt Streets in the Sydney CBD – just down from Kid Kyoto – after receiving calls about a man being shot by people in the black Audi.
Paramedics treated Hamze at the scene before he was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital where he later died.
Superintendent Detective Danny Doherty described the murder as a “brazen assassination” during the “prime time of in the entertainment sector of Sydney”.
“A hail of bullets cut down Bilal Hamze and he died and that would have been horrific to witness,” he said on Tuesday.
“Again no one should stand for this and the…
