NSW: Seventh person charged with murder over truckie's death

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2010
NSW: Seventh person charged with murder over truckie's death

SYDNEY, April 21 AAP - A seventh person has been charged over the death of truck driver
Bob Knight, killed by a stray bullet as he drove along a Sydney road last year.

Almost 10 months after the shooting, police earlier on Wednesday charged six people
- four men and two youths - with Mr Knight's murder.

Mr Knight, 66, from McGregor in the ACT, was killed by a stray bullet as he drove his
truck along Milperra Road in Sydney's southwest about 10.40pm (AEST) on June 25.

An additional 17-year-old youth was charged on Wednesday after turning himself in to
Campsie police station just after noon (AEST), police said in a statement.

He was charged with murder and affray and was refused bail to appear at Parramatta
Children's Court on Thursday.

Detective Inspector Pamela Young says police believe Mr Knight died as a result of
a planned shootout between warring families in the car park of a suburban KFC outlet.

"The allegation is that they met at the KFC car park to fight each other, we allege
to fire shots at each other, (and) a stray bullet has left the KFC car park and travelled
so far that it did hit Bob Knight as he was driving his truck," she told reporters earlier
on Wednesday.

Two men arrested at Greenacre on Tuesday night - Mustafa Mariam, 32, and Tarek Elvadar,
25 - faced Burwood Local Court on Wednesday charged with Mr Knight's murder and a charge
of affray.

Neither applied for bail and it was formally refused.

The others charged are expected to face Bankstown Local Court and Parramatta Children's
Court later on Wednesday.

Prior to the 17-year-old's arrest, Insp Young said three more people were expected
to be charged with Mr Knight's murder.

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