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Police speak with gunned down bikie Peter Zervas
UPDATED: Angus Hohenboken | March 30, 2009
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HELLS Angel Peter Zervas was leaning against a car after being shot multiple times when police arrived at the scene last night.
Superintendent Peter Lennon of Campsie Local Area Command said a Triple O call was made by a friend of the man.
Police have already spoken to Zervas as he lies recovering in St George Hospital and is expected to help with inquiries, Detective Lennon said.
"We have started to initially speak to the victim, because of his medical condition we will go back to conduct further inquiries with him at the appropriate time.
The shooting came one week after his younger brother, Anthony Zervas, died as a result of a violent brawl involving 15 members of the Hells Angels and Comancheros bikies at Sydney airport.
The gunman approached the victim from the rear of the vehicle, a white Hyundai Excel, after it pulled up at the garage entrance to the Punchbowl Road unit.
Zervas was shot in the right shoulder and upper chest, right hip and right foot and was conscious after the attack.
"A number of shots were discharged from a small calibre hand gun,'' Detective Lennon said.
"He's very lucky to be alive.''
Neighbours reported hearing eight shots in close succession.
Detective Lennon said Campsie police were working with gang squad detectives and StrikeForce Raptor on the investigation, but did not link the incident to recent bikie gang violence.
Police have asked for witnesses to come forward who may have seen a man running across Punchbowl Road after the shooting and want to speak to a driver who honked his horn at him and the runner himself.
The man is described as 175cm tall, of heavy build, with long dark hair past his collar.
He was wearing a dark shirt and dark jeans.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25263273-601,00.html