NSW Police probe Bankstown shooting death of prominent lawyer Ho Le Dinh

The killer of prominent Vietnamese lawyer Ho Le Dinh is still on the run as friends struggle to make sense of the family man's brazen daylight shooting murder on a busy Sydney street.

NSW Police and Forensic Services officers attend the scene of a shooting at a cafe at Bankstown City Plaza, in Bankstown, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 (AAP) Source: AAP

Mr Ho, aged in his 60s, died on the side of a Bankstown road after being shot several times just before 4:00pm on Tuesday in what New South Wales Police described as a "targeted attack".

Witnesses said the attacker fled on foot, with police confirming the last sighting of the suspect as Stewart Lane in Bankstown, behind the Bankstown City Plaza.

Stergos Kastelloriou reports.