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By Brittany Chain For Daily Mail Australia
A 'fiercely loyal' gangster mum who was gunned down on her way to an engagement party 'talked to the cops' to protect a loved one - despite knowing she would likely pay for it with her life.
Lametta Fadlallah was not the type of woman to 'snitch', but would do anything in her power to protect those close to her, a friend told Daily Mail Australia.
So when she learned someone she cared deeply about was in serious trouble with the law, she reportedly contacted the NSW Crime Commission.
From that moment on, Ms Fadlallah, 48, was a marked woman.
The underworld mum knew the price of speaking out - and spent her final days looking over her shoulder.
'I think she knew it was coming,' her friend said.
In the months before she was shot dead beside her hairdresser friend Amy Hazouri, 39, Ms Fadlallah installed multiple high-tech security cameras at her Revesby home.
Those very cameras likely captured the moment she was ambushed alongside Ms Hazouri as they made their way to an engagement party on Saturday night.
Gunmen fired at least a dozen bullets into the backseat of the Toyota 4WD they were riding in, killing Ms Fadlallah instantly. Ms Hazouri later died from her injuries.
Lametta Fadlallah was not the type of woman to 'snitch', but would do anything in her power to protect the people she loved, a friend told Daily Mail Australia
In May she paid to have an advanced security system installed with at least three cameras facing onto the street where she was ambushed and shot dead
Ms Fadlallah was no stranger to the rules of the underworld, having been involved in in criminal activity - either through marriage or in her own right - for many decades.
She was well aware of the price of speaking to police.
'As it was put to me, the killers don't think they have broken any rules to stay away from women and family because that's not why she was targeted. She is dead because she snitched,' a friend said.
'She didn't
