Thirty minutes before a young dad was shot in front of his son, two would-be assassins are caught on CCTV at a petrol station.
The pair are on a stolen Triumph Sprint GT superbike at the BP Service Station on Seedley Road in Salford .
The location is less than a mile from where a man was later blasted on Langworthy Road.
As the victim pulled up at traffic lights at the junction with Eccles New Road two men on a motorbike pulled up next to his car.
The pillion passenger on the bike shot the man at point blank range.
Despite being hit in the shoulder he managed to drive himself to A&E with a bullet still lodged in his body. He has since recovered.
His 11-year-old son who had witnessed the attack, sat in the passenger seat of his dad's Seat Leon, suffered a perforated eardrum.
The M.E.N. can now reveal the black motorbike used in the attack had been stolen from Moston on April 25.
It was bearing its original number plate when used in the shooting. It has a top speed of 160mph. The machine has not yet been recovered.
Detective Chief Inspector Amber Waywell, said: "The bike was stolen five days before the shooting. We would like to know where it was for those five days. It was pictured at the petrol station about half an hour before the incident turning round."
Detectives are keeping an open mind as to the motive for the shooting.
One possible theory is that it is linked to a long-running war between the A-Team gang and another Salford outfit, dubbed the Antis.
The dispute erupted in 2014 and resulted in a series of shootings, a grenade attack, machete attack and a murder.
Eight members of the A-Team were jailed in March after a schoolboy and his mum were shot on their doorstep in Salford and a man was blasted at a car wash in Wigan.
Police are linking the attack to a shooting in Ordsall , Salford, in February when a gunman blasted the wrong house in Howard Street, off Eccles New Road. Two people were inside the property but no one was hurt.
But DCI Waywell said: "It could be an internal A-Team or Antis fallout. People switch affiliations within organised crime groups. There is nothing to support either theory. But this was not a random attack. It was targeted."
A 29-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder has been released under investigation.
But the M.E.N. understands police are still hunting the rider of the motorbike and the shooter.
DCI Waywell added: "This goes beyond organised crime and anybody who would be willing to open fire in front of a child needs to be found and brought to justice."
Anyone with information can call police on the 101 number or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
