Detectives investigating the murder of David King at Salt Ash in August are searching for two more men, including the alleged gunman, as two others charged over their alleged involvement in the shooting were refused bail on Monday.
Tyson George Stamp, 27, of Raymond Terrace, appeared in court from an isolation cell at the Silverwater Correctional Complex after testing positive to COVID-19, the court heard.
Mr King, who was on bail for drug supply charges, was driving along Hideaway Drive, Salt Ash, about 1.45pm on Sunday, August 29 when he was shot in the face at close range by one of his passengers and crashed his car into a tree.
Emergency services arrived to find Mr King's lifeless body slumped outside his driver's side door.
Mr Stamp has been charged with murder, take or detain a person in company with intent to obtain advantage, damaging property by fire and possession of a prohibited weapon.
It is understood that police do not allege Mr Stamp was the gunman, but instead claim he was at the scene of the shooting with two other men and drove the getaway car, a white Hyundai Santa Fe, which was later found burnt out in Masonite Road, Heatherbrae.
Police released CCTV footage earlier this month showing a man running down Masonite Road before throwing the keys to the Sante Fe, which police say was a rental car, onto the roof of a business about 45 minutes after Mr King was shot.
Mr Stamp is also accused of detaining a woman in the immediate aftermath of Mr King's death in a bid to conceal the shooting, court documents state.
The kidnapping is alleged to have lasted some seven minutes.
He did not enter any pleas or apply for bail on Monday and the matter was adjourned until January.
Another man charged over Mr King's alleged murder, Adam Kane Garvey, 39, of Raymond Terrace, chose not to come up on the AVL screen and appear in court on Monday.
Mr Garvey, who was arrested at Charlestown on Friday, did not enter any pleas to charges of being an accessory after the fact to murder and accessory after the fact to kidnapping.
Mr Garvey is alleged to have provided assistance to Mr Stamp and the two other men in the aftermath of the murder and kidnapping.
Detectives had ramped up their public appeals for information and released vision from several CCTV cameras in the days before arresting Mr Stamp and Mr Garvey.
Police have labelled Mr King's death a "targeted attack" and were investigating if it was drug related.
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