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Chilling details have emerged about how a gangland mum spent her final hours at a Lebanese restaurant going over the final details of a party she'd organised.
But Lametta Fadlallah, 48, never made it, and was gunned down on Saturday evening while sitting in the back of a Toyota 4WD, out the front of the south-west Sydney home she shared with her 16-year-old son.
She was shot dead alongside her hairdresser Amy Hazouri, 39, who had just finished a shift at her hair salon in Bankstown, believed to have been killed as collateral damage,
Hours earlier, a 'happy and bubbly' Ms Fadlallah was at Massaya Restaurant in Strathfield South doing odd jobs to help out the sons of her partner Adel Dayoub and looking over the final details for that night's event.
The mother-of-two then headed home to Panania to get ready with her friend Ms Hazouri before the two women got into a car to head to the restaurant for a night of Lebanese entertainment, drummers and dancing.
Ms Fadlallah was a regular guest at Massaya, which is owned by her partner's son.
Taleb Dayoub said his father's partner showed 'zero paranoia' that her life could be in danger as he recalled their last conversation on Saturday morning.
Lametta Fadlallah (left) was regular guest at Massaya and features in many photos on the restaurant's Facebook page
'Our last conversation was just about bookings … then she'd gone to get her hair done and get dressed, and come back for the party,' he told the Daily Telegraph.
'She'd come around and help (at the restaurant), it felt like she was part of the family … but she was not an owner, she had nothing to do with it.
'Someone that has the potential of that happening wouldn't be living like that, going out regularly, going into the city.'
Ms Fadlallah also told the owners she was bringing a teenage TikTok influencer, who was "coming to make social posts and promote the restaurant".
Dayoub Jr. earlier told Daily Mail Australia he and his father were as mystified as everyone else as to why she was violently murdered.
'We don't know anything. We were just getting to know her over the last year,' Mr Dayoub Jr. said.
'She was very nice. My dad is in shock. He is not alright. He's grieving.'
Meanwhile, investigations continue into the double murder continue.
Footage from the street shows the gunman tapped four times on the car window before firing up to 15 bullets into the vehicle.
Lametta Fadlallah spent her final hours alive on Saturday at Massaya Restaurant (pictured) on preparing for that night's festivities that she would never attend
Former NSW Police detective Peter Moroney said it was remarkable the 16-year-old girl and the 20-year-old male driver sitting in the front seat survived.
'You can hear the volume of shots being fired into that car. There was an understanding there were up to four men around that car at the time of the shooting,' he told the Today show on Wednesday.
'It is sending a very, very clear message.'
'We clearly know they were there for that strict purpose of, unfortunately, killing one of the ladies, and the other lady at this point in time appears to be caught up.
'It shows they have come with a clear intent, and they have been able to carry that intent out absolutely.'
Mr Moroney said the focus of the police investigation would be wide and varied but would start with the victims, predominately Ms Fadlallah.
'They will build a background about her business dealings, finance dealings and just ultimately trying to find a motive at this point of time,' he said.
'They will expand then on those lines of inquiries. They will be running inquiries around the neighbourhood, doorknocking, for example, moving through financials, going through court charge records.
'There will be a whole plethora of lines of inquiry running parallel to try and narrow down a motive.'
'Once we can secure that they will start to work towards the actual offenders.
Meanwhile, Sydney gangsters have suspicions Fadlallah leaked information to the police amid claims she was a 'very big drug dealer.'
Ms Fadlallah's mother has condemned her daughter's killers as 'cowards' and warned her death will see other bodies fall as payback for her family's loss.
'It doesn't matter how bad she is, they shouldn't do that. We're all going to die at some point,' Nadia Fadlallah told The Australian.
'I don't want them to go to jail – I want them to leave them on the street the same way they did to my daughter … someone else will get them back, in God's name.'
It comes as more details are revealed about the popular teenage TikToker seated in the car's front seat as her hairdresser friend and Ms Fadlallah were killed.
Nadia Fadlallah (pictured right with Lametta's sister) has condemned her daughter's killers as 'cowards' and warned her death will see other bodies fall as payback for her family's loss
Lametta Fadlallah was happy and bubbly on Saturday morning, according to her partner's son
Daily Mail Australia revealed on Tuesday the 16-year-old, who cannot be named, was close with Ms Hazouri and often spent time with her at her salon in south-west Sydney socially.
On Saturday, she'd been invited to attend an engagement party with Ms Hazouri and Ms Fadlallah to create social media content at the Lebanese restaurant.
That's when as many as four hitmen reportedly pushed the teen's head forward and killed her friend and acquaintance with a hail of bullets.
On Monday, the teenage survivor shared a message to friends and her tens of thousands of followers on her social media accounts about the shooting.
She provided a harrowing account of what unfolded and how she hasn't been able to stop crying since.
The young woman added she 'is not joking about her experience' and paid tribute to her dead friend.
'Amy was very kind to everyone and loved everyone,' she said in a short tribute on Instagram.
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named, was close with 39-year-old hairdresser Amy Hazouri (above) and often spent time with her both in her
