A former UFC fighter was shot dead while on an early evening walk in Sydney’s north-west on Wednesday, in a “brazen” and “targeted” daylight attack that came six months after the man survived a previous alleged assassination plot.

Suman Mokhtarian, 33, was shot at the intersection of two residential streets in Riverstone, north of The Ponds, about 6pm on Wednesday. Paramedics who raced to the scene were unable to revive the man who had been shot in the upper body.

Mokhtarian, who last fought in the UFC in 2019, was the alleged target of a gangland hit at a Sydney mixed martial arts event in April, which was cancelled amid fears for the man’s life.

He had previously survived an alleged attempted hit outside the Australian Top Team gym in Wentworthville last year, when a man allegedly p

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