Two hooded gunmen storm Melbourne tattoo parlour and gun down Comanchero bikie. Source: CCTV
Chilling footage has emerged of the moment two hooded gunmen stormed a Melbourne tattoo parlour and gunned down a Comanchero bikie in a brazen, daylight execution attempt.
The video, obtained by the Herald Sun, shows two hooded men climbing out of a car and rushing inside the Nitro Ink tattooparlour, in Melbourne's southeast, while onlooking pedestrians scramble in terror, the Daily Mailreports.
Moments later, the two men rush back outside and into the waiting getaway vehicle, which was found burned out in a nearby street after the shooting.
The Comanchero bikie gunned down inside the tattoo parlour was revealed as high-profile member Robert Ale, the right-hand man of the gang's jailed national president.
Ale, known as the ''Cry Baby Comanchero'', was fighting for life in hospital after he was shot nine times during the attempted execution.
Police are probing whether rival gangs the Rebels or Bandidos are behind the assassination attempt.
But it is understood an internal dispute between Victoria and New South Wales Comanchero factions may be fuelling the violence, the Age reported.
The internal squabble was sparked after a wild brawl at a Canberra strip club in August last year.
CCTV footage showed bikies, who later refused to cooperate with police, smashing glasses on their own heads and ripping off their shirts.
Meanwhile, anti-gang police in Melbourne have said Ale's shooting is being treated as a targeted hit.
Ale was allegedly a major player in a crime syndicate that trafficked drugs and plotted arson attacks on a strip club, a court heard last year, Herald Sun reported.
During a bail hearing at the time, Con Heliotis, QC, said his client was not coping with his first stint in custody.
Mr Heliotis said when Ale was visited by another lawyer in jail, ''he broke down and cried like a baby'', according to the paper.
''If left in there, he'll break down,'' Mr Heliotis said at the time.
Ale was charged with threatening to kill, drug trafficking, conspiring to commit arson and possession of an unregistered handgun. He was on bail when he was shot.
