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Nick Martin, the senior motorcyclist for the Western Australian Rebels, was shot and killed in front of several witnesses at a motorsports event in Perth.
Former rebel motorcycle chairman Nick Martin was shot dead at the Kwinana Motorplex near Perth. Source: Nine
WA police said today that there was a firearm incident at the Perth Motorplex in Kwinana Beach shortly after 8.30 p.m. local time Saturday, with the 51-year-old Martin and a 31-year-old man shot.
The motorplex was hosting an endurance racing event Saturday night.
Both men were taken to hospital in Perth, but Martin, who was facing financial misconduct charges and had lost his role as president of the rebels, died.
An eight-year-old boy, who was sitting on the lap of an adult sitting next to Martin, also suffered superficial injuries as part of the incident.
Washington Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said authorities would do everything possible to crack down on attacks by motorcyclists in retaliation after Martin’s death.
The person who committed the shooting has yet to be caught.
“Nick Martin had lost his status within the rebels’ outlaw motorcycle gang, he was a president for a long time and had been shot several years earlier and survived that shooting,” Dawson told reporters today.
“We should all be outraged by this violent criminal behavior.
“Any motorcyclist can guarantee that they will have much more contact … they are already under significant police pressure and that pressure will increase.”
In March 2011, Martin was shot in the arm as he arrived at his Balcatta home on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. In 2012, a member of the Rock Machine motorcycle gang was sentenced to more than six years in prison for the shooting.
