The killers sat in a silver Subaru WRX for three and a half hours, waiting for their target in a suburban Sydney street, a court has heard.
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And when they saw Ali Jammas come out of his Abbotsbury house to collect his wheelie bins, one of them got out of the car and ran towards him.
Mr Jammas was on the phone and dragging the bins up the driveway when six shots rang out in Thorpe Place.
Four of the bullets hit Mr Jammas, and he managed to crawl into his house before he collapsed.
Despite attempts to revive him, Mr Jammas died at the scene on July 12, 2013.
Three years after Mr Jammas' death, his alleged killer Mahmoud Barakat, 31, sat dressed in a grey suit at the opening of his murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
On Tuesday Crown prosecutor Peter McGrath SC gave his opening address to a jury explaining that a silver Subaru WRX was central to the circumstantial case against Mr Barakat.
Mr McGrath told the court that Mr Barakat was seen on CCTV footage collecting a Subaru WRX from his friend David Younes' house on Wednesday, July 10 – two days before Mr Jammas's murder.
He also explained that Mr Barakat was captured on CCTV footage returning the car to Wycombe Road, Yagoona, about half an hour after the murder.
"The accused walked to Mr Younes' front gate and put something in the letterbox … he then drove away," Mr McGrath said.
Mr McGrath told the jury that Mr Barakat was captured wearing a dark hooded jumper, dark pants and white sport shoes.
This was a similar description that witnesses gave police of the man who shot Mr Jammas in Thorpe Place.
Mr McGrath also said the mobile phones owned by Mr Barakat were not used between 6am and 10.30am on the day of the murder.
The court also heard that Mr Barakat owned a black Range Rover and a Lexus at the time he allegedly borrowed the Subaru from Mr Younes.
When Mr Younes, the owner of the silver Subaru WRX, was brought in for questioning a few weeks later – he called Mr Barakat afterwards and arranged to meet him at the Sefton Hotel.
Mr McGrath told the jury that in order for them to convict Mr Barakat of murder they had to be certain of two essential things.
The first was that the Subaru used in the shooting of Mr Jammas was the car owned by Mr Younes.
The second element was that Mr Barakat was in the car at Abbotsbury on the morning of the shooting and that he was the driver of the car or the man who shot Mr Jammas.
Mr Barakat has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder and remains on bail.
The trial continues before Justice Natalie Adams.
