Chilling CCTV vision of “Glitter Strip” bikie Shane Bowden’s execution has been made public for the first time.
Key points:
- Two hooded men hid in a vacant lot before running up a Gold Coast street and opening fire on the 48-year-old bikie as he returned home in October last year
- New video clearly shows the men running from the scene carrying two guns
- They are seen fleeing and getting into a car waiting nearby
Gold Coast police and homicide detectives investigating the slaying have spent the past two weeks drip-feeding details of the lead-up to the fatal shooting at Pimpama last October, revealing they are closing the net on the Finks stalwart’s killers.
Bowden was shot 21 times by a machine pistol and a long-arm firearm in the driveway of the Gold Coast property he was staying at after returning from Victoria.
Shocking vision released today shows the 48-year-old driving a black BMW into the garage of the unit before two hooded men can be seen running toward the property from a vacant lot nearby, carrying a shotgun and a pistol.
They open fire on Bowden.
The actual killing is obscured by the garage door but the men can be seen discharging one gun before turning back to fire more rounds from a second gun.
After shooting Bowden 21 times, the vision shows two men run away from the Cox Road address and take off in a silver Commodore being driven by a third person.
Bowden was a long-time Finks bikie, who was once part of the infamous Gold Coast “Terror Team” involved in the 2006 “Ballroom Blitz” at the Royal Pines Resort.
He had patched over to the Mongols outlaw gang years before his death.
But Bowden was booted from the club shortly before his murder and re-joined the Finks on the Gold Coast.
He was also actively recruiting new members.
Gold Coast regional crime coordinator Detective Superintendent Brendan Smith has publicly declared police believe the Mongols gang is behind the killing.
He said there was no other way to describe the crime than as an “execution”.
Superintendent Smith described the machine pistol used as “just like what you would see in the movies”.
“We are fortunate, in some respects, in that there was no one else in that vehicle because, as you can see it was quite dark.
“Anyone else could have been in that car we could have had a number of other people hurt,” he said.
“This just shows the ferocity of it. They were in and out in seconds, literally seconds.”
Detective Superintendent Smith said police were very close to making arrests.
“People talk about Mr Bowden’s lifestyle but he’s got siblings, he’s got parents, he’s got a son and they shouldn’t be tarred with the same brush.”
He called on the shooters to come forward and not to be fooled by “this rubbish around gang loyalty”.
Earlier this week, Superintendent Smith called upon anyone involved in the brutal murder to come forward and “save themselves” before up to 12 people would be arrested over the slaying.
Earlier this month, police announced a $250,000 reward in the case.
They have also released footage of people they say are Mongols bikies driving in a getaway car convoy and filling up jerry cans of fuel that was later used to torch two cars connected to the killing.
Detectives are appealing for anyone who may know the identity of the two suspects in that CCTV to come forward.
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