BY KAITLYN OFFER for AAP
Grieving family and friends of Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim will farewell the gangland figure at a funeral service.
Abdulrahim, 32, previously survived at least half a dozen attempts on his life, but on Tuesday his luck had run out and he was slain in broad daylight in an ambush of the hotel carpark of Quest Hotel, Preston, in front of his girlfriend.
Abdulrahim was with a girlfriend when the shooters pounced at about 10.30am on Tuesday.
He was married to lawyer Chloe Wakim and the couple share a young daughter.
The service will be held at Epping Mosque this morning for the bikie-turned-boxer, followed by a midday burial at Northern Memorial Park.
“Taken too soon, Sam was a man full of life, he was loved by all and his smile would always light up the room,” the funeral notice reads.
“A loving father, son, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin, partner and friend. He will be dearly missed, but never forgotten.”
Homicide detectives are trying to find his killers and are examining two burnt-out cars.
A Porsche SUV was found burnt out at Reservoir an hour after the shooting.
A grey Ford Ranger with a distinctive sticker of bull horns on the ute’s canopy rear window was found at Westmeadows and was also set ablaze, police confirmed on Wednesday.
Abdulrahim was shot in 2022, attacked with a rock in prison in 2019, shot at again in 2024 and was put back in prison at one point because police feared he was the target of three shooting incidents.
The attempts started from the belief he was connected to the killing of another gangland figure in 2016.
His death has sparked fears of revenge attacks by underworld figures.
