Breaking: Shots fired where gangster's funeral was advertised to be held

Multiple shots fired at south-west Sydney venue where gangster Lorenzo Lemalu's funeral was advertised to be held Sat 6 Jun 2026 at 6:16pm Multiple shots have been fired at a venue at Punchbowl, in Sydney's south-west, on Saturday afternoon. It was the same venue that had earlier been posted on social media as the location for the funeral of Sydney gangster Lorenzo Lemalu, who was shot in a hail of bullets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on May 2. But NSW Police said there was no funeral taking place and there were no mourners there when the shooting took place. Officers were called to the Diamond Venues Group on the corner of Punchbowl and Canterbury Road about 2:20pm. There, police said they "found several shots had been fired into a venue by an unknown SUV before it drove from the scene". There was one person working in a nearby office connected with the same building. However, there were no reported injuries. Police said a short time later they were called to nearby Gillian Place in Punchbowl after reports of a fire and found an abandoned car well alight. Officers have established two crime scenes with initial inquiries indicating they are linked. Mr Lemalu's body returned to Australia this week. He was the leader of the self-proclaimed "Coconut Cartel", which takes its name from a historic slur against Pasifika people." Loading