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Abdul Zahed charged with alleged murder of Youssef Assoum in Sydney in 2014

Comanchero kingpin Tarek Zahed's younger brother has become the third person charged over the murder of a man in Sydney's south-west eight years ago.

Youssef Assoum was found by a doctor shot and stabbed in a residential street just metres from Bankstown Hospital on December 11, 2014.

The doctor performed CPR, but despite his best efforts, the 29-year-old later died at Liverpool Hospital with stab wounds to his head and a gunshot wound to his leg.

Court documents reveal police will allege that sometime between December 10 and 11, 2014, brothers Tarek and Abdul Zahed were together and kidnapped Mr Assoum with the intention of committing a serious indictable offence. 

Police say Abdul Zahed, 37, was today arrested at a correctional facility in Bathurst and charged with murder and kidnapping in company with intent to commit a serious indictable offence occasioning actual bodily harm. 

Older brother Tarek Zahed, 42, who this year survived an assassination attempt, was also charged with murder and kidnapping offences last month. 

He and 44-year-old Triantafilos Vlangos, who was charged with accessory after the fact to the alleged murder of Mr Assoum, remain before the courts. 

Tarek Zahed was dramatically arrested on a busy road in Sydney's eastern suburbs on August 28, after officers fired non-lethal shots at a luxury car he was travelling in. 

The Comanchero national sergeant-at-arms was dragged out of the vehicle, handcuffed, and taken to a nearby police station where the charges were laid. 

Vision of the arrest showed his head bandaged, three months after he miraculously survived an assassination attempt out the front of an Auburn gym. 

Another of his brothers, Omar Zahed, 39, died at the scene after being hit with a hail of bullets.

NSW Police Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty previously told media he doesn't believe the shooting was linked to Mr Assoum's alleged murder.

Abdul Zahed will appear at Bankstown Local Court on September 22, 2022.

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