Boxer Humzah Khalid fighting for life after ‘gangland hit’, multiple police attacked in Sydney’s south-west

A well-known Sydney boxer is fighting for his life after being the victim of a shooting that had “all the hallmarks of a gangland hit”.

Humzah Khalid, 26, known by his in-ring nickname ‘The Raging Bull’, was hit when several bullets were fired at a car he and his friend, 30, were in on Campbell Hill Road, Chester Hill, about 11.30pm.

In a bizarre turn of events, his friend is then alleged to have punched NSW Police Chief Inspector Adam Phillips when he tried to help them when they arrived at Auburn Hospital.

Detective Chief Inspector Rod Hart told the media it was.[an] unprovoked attack on the chief inspector who was there investigating the attack”, in which the man “allegedly hit that chief inspector on the head a number of times”.

Phillips, who was able to complete the arrest with the help of hospital staff, suffered a laceration to the head in the “cowardly” attack, according to Hart.

Khalid, 26, is now fighting for life in hospital, while his friend today pleaded guilty at Burwood Local Court to allegedly assaulting Phillips.

The lawyer defending the man noted that he may not have been in the best mood when the alleged attack occurred, as he had witnessed Khalid being shot in front of him.

Police were told several shots had been fired from a black ute, with the attackers described as two men dressed in black, wearing balaclavas and armed with a pistol.

Both cars left the scene before police arrived.

Khalid and his friend arrived at Auburn Hospital about five minutes later, where officers found a Mercedes with multiple bullet holes in it in the hospital parking lot.

Hart said the couple was well known to police.

“At this stage we think they are partners,” he said.

He said the 30-year-old had been the driver of the Mercedes and had taken Khalid to hospital.

The younger man was known to have ties to organized crime, Hart said

“It has all the hallmarks of a gangland hit,” he said

It was just one of two dramatic incidents involving police in Sydney, with a police officer found pinned between two cars after allegedly being run over by a man in a stolen car.

Riot police were patrolling Juno Parade in Punchbowl at around 8.40pm when they spotted a Toyota CHR allegedly stolen from Riverwood.

The Toyota stopped in traffic at the intersection with Punchbowl Road, and as a police sergeant approached the car to arrest the driver, the car accelerated, putting the officer between him and the police vehicle.

The officer fired his gun three times, hitting the Toyota before it sped away.

Paramedics treated the 39-year-old police officer for injuries to his lower leg and he was taken to hospital in a stable condition.

He has since been released, although he suffered extensive ligament damage.

Just after 9.15pm police were called to Thorn Street, Ryde, following reports of an injured man walking down the street.

Officers found the Toyota CHR abandoned on Richard Johnson Crescent before finding a bloodied man, believed to be the driver, in the front yard of a home on Squires Street.

The 32-year-old man was taken to hospital in a stable condition, where he remains under police guard.

He had suffered two gunshot wounds, one to the right shoulder and one to his right wrist

Hart said the man would be charged with serious misdemeanors after the operation and the shooting would be reviewed by police.

He said the sergeant had “serious fears for his life” when he was pinned down.

“It was his decision at the time to fire those shots that I believe saved his life,” he said

Hart said the alleged car thief was known to police but had no ties to organized crime

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