A man has died after being stabbed when he was allegedly attacked by a group of masked men in broad daylight in Sydney’s west on Saturday afternoon.
It was the second alleged stabbing death in Sydney on Saturday after a 15-year-old was charged with murder over an unrelated incident earlier in the day.
Investigating police said the 37-year-old man and a friend had just finished eating a pizza together and were walking to a friend’s house on Bangor Street in Guildford when the three masked men dressed all in black attacked them at about 1.45pm.
The man’s friend distracted one of the attackers before driving the victim to Westmead hospital, where he later died.
Speaking on Sunday, police said they were yet to identify a motive or find a weapon allegedly used in the attack.
The man who died was known to police, but not for serious matters, and had no known links to organised crime, NSW police superintendent Andrew Holland said.
“There [are] concerns about why they have been attacked in the middle of the day, in the middle of the street,” Holland said.
“They obviously had intent when they went to that location, they knew what they were up to and obviously our victim and our witness were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Police have appealed for dashcam footage from about 1.30pm Saturday and were looking for a silvery-blue Toyota sedan with tinted windows.
Earlier this year, the NSW government introduced laws that expanded police powers to allow them to randomly “wand” or “scan” people for knives without a warrant.
The NSW legislation was developed after the stabbings at Bondi Junction, Wakeley and Coffs Harbour and based on Queensland’s Jack’s Law.
