Former Mongols bikie fighting for life after being shot at relative’s funeral at Fawkner

Heavyweight boxer and former Mongols bikie Sam Abdulrahim is fighting for life after being shot while attending his cousin’s funeral.

Abdulrahim, 32, was shot three times and his Mercedes G-Class 4WD sprayed with bullets at Fawkner, in Melbourne‘s northern suburbs, on Saturday.

The alleged shooter reportedly fled the scene before crashing their vehicle into a fire hydrant at the Sydney and Box Forest roads intersection. 

Abdulrahim drove himself to the local police station before an ambulance arrived and took him to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition, The Age reported.

Heavyweight boxer and former Mongols bikie Sam Abdulrahim is fighting for life after being shot while attending his cousin’s funeral

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Abdulrahim, 32, was shot three times and his Mercedes sprayed with bullets at Fawkner

He was shot in the lung and kidney, Herald Sun reported. 

A black Mercedes-Benz G-Class four-wheel-drive parked outside the police station has been surrounded with tape.

Ambulance Victoria said paramedics had responded to an incident in Hadfield.

‘Paramedics treated one person at the scene who has been taken to hospital in a critical condition,’ Ambulance Victoria said in a statement.

The shooting comes months after Abdulrahim, sergeant-at-arms Mark Balsillie and Toby Mitchell were ordered to hand in their colours. 

Balsillie and Abdulrahim were summoned to an urgent meeting with the gang’s new Queensland hierarchy on the Gold Coast where they were told they were out, the Herald Sun reported.

Mitchell, also a former Bandidos boss, Balsillie and Abdulrahim were widely regarded as three of the most influential Mongols in the club’s ranks last year.

The alleged shooter reportedly fled the scene before crashing a vehicle into a pole at the Sydney Road intersection 

Emergency services on scene following the shooting of Abdulrahim on Saturday

The shooting comes months after Abdulrahim, sergeant-at-arms Mark Balsillie and Toby Mitchell (pictured) were ordered to hand in their colours

Balsillie was involved in patching Russian Comancheros across to the Mongols, while Abdulrahim is thought to be well connected in Melbourne’s middle eastern crime circles. 

Abdulrahim is also known in kickboxing circles as The Punisher and owns boxing management company Punisher Promotions.

He was arrested in 2017 after crashing his Ferrari 360 Spider into several cars with the crash killing 88-year-old great-grandmother Muriel Hulett. 

He was jailed for a minimum two years before he was released in March 2019. 

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Abdulrahim is also known in kickboxing circles as The Punisher and owns boxing management company Punisher Promotions