Heartbroken family of slain Sydney hairdresser Amy Hazouri speak about their ‘angel’

The heartbroken father of an ‘innocent’ hairdresser who was killed in an assassination said his daughter was an ‘angel’ and wished he’d died instead.

Sydney hairdresser Amy Hazouri, 39, was gunned down in a hail of bullets alongside former gangster wife Lametta Fadlallah, 48, in the back of a Toyota 4WD in Panania, south-west Sydney on Saturday.

On Monday night Ms Hazouri’s devastated father, Khaled, broke down crying while describing his beautiful daughter.

‘Innocent’ Sydney hairdresser Amy Hazouri (above) was killed in an assassination on Saturday night alongside gang wife Lametta Fadlallah

‘Angel, angel,’ he told Nine News. ‘Friendly to every people.’

In broken English Mr Hazouri said his daughter always had a smile and offered a hand wherever needed.

While the broken father sobbed a translator revealed he said he wished he had died instead of Amy.

It is understood Ms Fadlallah was the target of Saturday night’s attack.

Amy Hazouri’s father Khaled (above) broke down while describing his daughter as an ‘angel’

She was previously in a relationship with two underworld kingpins and considered ‘a gangster’ in her own right by police.

An underworld source who knew Ms Fadlallah told the Daily Telegraph she could have been killed because she knew too much and the underworld’s secret dealings. 

Ms Fadlallah and Ms Hazouri were in the back seat of the car when at least one gunman sprayed their car with bullets, killing them both outside Ms Fadlallah’s home.

It is understood Ms Fadlallah (above) was the target of Saturday’s attack due to her underworld ties

Ms Hazouri had been on a house call at Ms Fadlallah’s while the ‘gang wife’ prepared for a night out.

Police revealed on Sunday that the car was driven by a 20-year-old man, who sped to safety around the corner as bullets were fired.

Once out of the line of fire the young man contacted emergency services.

Ms Hazouri’s family described her as a ‘good girl’ who was an ‘innocent party’ in the shooting, confirming earlier  police assessment that she was likely collateral damage in a targeted attack on Ms Fadlallah.

Ms Hazouri and Ms Fadlallah were shot in the street outside Ms Fadlallah’s home (above) while in the backseat of a car

Loved ones told Daily Mail Australia the Ms Hazouri was the sole provider of her family in Lebanon, including her sick mother who she was saving to visit.

‘Amy was the sole provider for our family in Lebanon that is currently struggling with the economic crisis in Lebanon,’ Ms Hazouri’s sister wrote on a GoFundMe page.

‘We require urgent funds to carry out funeral services and transfer her body to Lebanon to lay at rest. Our mother is not well and cannot travel to Australia to see her daughter.’

Ms Hazouri’s mother is unable to travel to Australia from Lebanon for a funeral due to her poor health. 

Ms Hazouri’s (above) remember her as a hardworking and ‘beautiful’ woman who put others before herself

Ms Hazouri’s friend of eight years Sureyya Gunacti, who works in a neighbouring shop to Ms Hazouri’s salon, Jocelyne Chidiac Hair, said she had been excited to travel the Middle East with her sister as part of her trip to Lebanon.

‘She was the most beautiful girl,’ Ms Gunacti told Daily Mail Australia. ‘She used come here and sit and talk.

‘Or she would ring me and say ‘let me do your hair, I’ll make you feel nice’.

Ms Gunacti said Ms Hazouri worked at the salon for up to eight years and was loved by both staff and customers.

Ms Hazouri worked at Jocelyne Chidiac (above) for about eight years before she was brutally murdered on Saturday

‘She loved her work and everybody loved her. She was a good girl, not married, no kids.

‘She would normally be here at this time, it’s so sad and I feel sad for her parents.’

Ms Gunacti said the salon owner Jocelyne Chidiac was ‘very sad’ about Ms Hazouri’s death as the pair had been ‘very close’.

Colleagues at the salon shared a tribute on Sunday saying they were ‘shattered’ to hear of the tragic death.

‘We are shattered, our heart is broken, you left us too soon,’ the tribute read. ‘May your memory be eternal… until we meet again.’