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Notorious Rebels bikie is struck by a hail of bullets after getting in a taxi in brazen daylight ambush where driver also suffers SIX gunshot wounds
- Former bikie Christopher Rymer fighting for life after shot through taxi window
- Taxi driver also wounded during shooting in Riverstone on Wednesday morning
- CCTV shows taxi being followed by a dark coloured ute shortly beforehand
- Police believe shooting was targeted and may be linked to feuding bikie gangs
A former notorious Rebels bikie and a taxi driver were riddled with bullets in a brazen daylight ambush.
Christopher Rymer, 30, was shot through the window of a Silvertop taxi he was travelling in Riverstone shortly after 9am on Wednesday.
The taxi driver, 40, was also wounded after being shot up to six times. The injured driver managed to drive the pair to Hawkesbury Hospital.
Christopher Rymer (pictured left) is fighting for life in hospital after he was shot at through the window of a taxi in Sydney’s north-west on Tuesday morning
CCTV obtained by Nine News records the moments before to the shooting where a dark-coloured ute follows the silver taxi along Junction Road.
The ute is captured speeding away a short time later and was later found burnt out in nearby Beaumont Hills.
Police were told the pair were shot when they stopped at an house in Riverstone after the taxi driver picked up Rymer from a home in Sydney’s west.
Both men remain in a serious condition with Rymer later transferred to Westmead Hospital for emergency surgery with potentially life-threatening injuries.
The taxi driver is expected to make a full recovery.
Witness Jadjid Singh said the alleged gunman shot ‘four or five rounds’ before getting back in his ute.
‘The taxi was going very slow,’ he told Nine News.
Christopher Rymer was a notorious Rebels bikie but is understood to have left the bikie gang in 2019
The alleged gunman is still at large.
Police believe the shooting was a targeted attack and were investigating whether it was linked to mounting tensions between the Rebels and Lone Wolves gangs.
Officers were angry innocent lives were allegedly caught up in the gangland war.
‘You fire enough shots at someone you want to kill and you hit someone innocent and it is really unacceptable,’ Detective Superintendent Rob Critchlow told reporters.
‘People in Sydney should be able to go about their lives without some fool trying to shoot another fool.’
Christopher Rymer (pictured in Rebels colours)
Superintendent Critchlow He confirmed My Rymer was known to police.
‘We know a little bit about his business and he’ll be subject to a strict investigation for what he’s been victimised (in today) and what else he’s been involved with,’ he said.
Separate crime scenes in Riverstone and Windsor were examined by specialist forensic police.
‘The matter has now been referred to the State Crime Command’s Criminal Group Squad, who have commenced an investigation,’ police said.
Rymer was once known as one of Sydney’s most notorious bikies, renowned for uploading photos of his lavish lifestyle on Instagram, including shopping trips to Louis Vuitton and visits to theme parks on the Gold Coast.
He is understood to have left the bikie gang in 2019 to become a devoted family man to his two young daughters and start up a dog breeding business.
Christopher Rymer suffered potentially life-threatening injuries in the targeted attack
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