Shootings The Work Of Two-bit Wannabe Gangsters Three separate shootings across Sydney in one night were probably the work of "two-bit wannabe gangsters" using the smokescreen of a bikie war to carry out their attacks, police say. There are no obvious links, police say, between the three incidents of gun violence on Thursday in Sydney's west at Smithfield, Wentworthville and Guildford. There was also nothing to indicate any of the incidents related to a turf war between the Hells Angels and the Comanchero, which is believed to have been the motive behind the fatal shooting of a man in Eastlakes this month. Detective Superintendent Scott Cook, who is overseeing the strike force set up to investigate public shootings in Sydney, said the three latest incidents were drug related. "The cause of these shootings appears to be at this stage low-level drug dealing between hoodlums who now have firearms and consider themselves to be gangsters," he said. They're two-bit pretenders. They're not gangsters. They're just young hoodlums with firearms. It's very reckless what they're doing. It's out of control in terms of their behaviour. In the most serious incident, a man, 41, was shot once in the leg after he was set upon by three hooded men outside a kebab shop in Smithfield just before 10pm. He was taken to Auburn Hospital where he was in a stable condition on Friday. Less than an hour earlier, shots were fired towards a man and a woman as they sat in a car in a swimming pool car park at Wentworthville. One bullet grazed the man, aged in his 30s, in the leg. He is in Auburn Hospital in a stable condition. Earlier a bullet grazed the leg of a man in his 30s when he was shot at in the car park of a swimming pool at Wentworthville. And on Thursday afternoon, shots were fired into buildings at Guildford, but no one was injured. The incidents followed the arrest and charging on Thursday of a Hells Angels prospect who was allegedly caught with a loaded, unregistered pistol on a street in Eastlakes a month ago. The 27-year-old was allegedly found standing outside an apartment block on George Street in the same spot where another Hells Angel prospect, Tyrone Lee Slemnik, was shot just over two weeks ago. Fairfax Media understands the men were guarding the block, which is the home of the president of the Hells Angels city east chapter. Superintendent Cook said the arrest on Thursday was unrelated to the three shootings later.