An innocent tradesman who was gunned down in front of a western Sydney home in another suspected case of mistaken identity has been identified as Joshua MacDonald. 

The 40-year-old was walking to a home on Bruce Street in Merrylands West on Wednesday afternoon when gunmen in a stolen Audi sedan opened fire, shooting him in the head and killing him instantly.

It is understood Mr MacDonald, an electrical contractor, was visiting the house, where the occupants are allegedly ‘well known to police for organised crime activity’. 

Police have confirmed that Mr MacDonald had no links to organised crime. 

‘The victim arrived at the property with a resident, from the property, and two young children,’ Detective Superintendent Simon Glasser told reporters on Wednesday.

‘People associated with this address have links to organised crime. It is a possibility that the wrong person has been shot by these offenders.’

Chilling CCTV later emerged on TikTok of the moment Mr MacDonald was gunned down.

Captioned ‘Merrylands pew pew’, the video showed a gunman leaning out of a back seat window of a stolen grey Audi sedan and opening fire as the car drove past the house. Those responsible remain on the run.

Joshua Macdonald, 40, was gunned down outside a Merrylands home on Wednesday

The gunmen, which pulled up in a stolen grey Audi, remain on the run

The news follows another fatal shooting in Glen Alpine in the city’s south-west at 4am on Tuesday.

Marco Tapia, 23, was fatally shot in the neck and arm in his bedroom after three masked men broke into a Mount Sugarloaf Drive home.

The unknown offenders fled the scene and also remain on the run. 

The young man was not known to police and had nothing more than a traffic offence on his record.

Detectives are considering whether it was also a mistaken identity hit.

‘Popped the wrong person. Didn’t even get the right house,’ Iziah Utai, an alleged member of the Coconut Cartel, wrote online after that shooting.

He returned on Wednesday to add: ‘RIP Marco. #innocentvictim’.

The Alameddine network, a notorious crime syndicate, and the Coconut Cartel, an emerging crime-for-hire gang, have allegedly become embroiled in a feud, spilling into shootings across Sydney in recent months.

More to come.