Innocent bystanders caught up in Sydney’s gangland war | 7.30 [2:15-3:29]

Ahmed rushed to check on staff in his second pharmacy, which is across the road from where the shooting happened. He's now retracing the steps he took, as he made his way through the panicked crowd. How many people would you say were a pick? So we're talking about hundreds. It's a busy suburb. As a local counsellor and former independent candidate for federal parliament, Ahmed Alff knows the people in this Western Sydney community well. We are a resilient community diverse, proud and full of heart. We will support each other. You believe the incident is still having an impact now on businesses? It's not the incident. It's the stigma that was created when it happened. This is the main issue. When we believe it's safe, but people still are thinking about what happened and afraid to still come to open. In the past 18 months, other innocent bystanders have been exposed to violence, allegedly linked to Sydney's gangland. Two men in their 20s, John Versace and Luke Manasseh, were ambushed and killed in separate attacks, both believed to be cases of mistaken identity.