Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu’s young widow shares photo before he was shot in Rhodes, Sydney

The young widow of a murdered ex-biker has shared a heartbreaking photo of the couple in a parking lot – before he was shot in front of her.

Jade Nazlioglu, 27, was with her new husband, Yusuf Nazlioglu, on Monday night when a hit man pumped his head and torso with ten bullets in a basement parking complex below their apartment in Rhodes, west of Sydney.

The 40-year-old was taken to Westmead Hospital but died Tuesday morning – just eight months after being released from prison and six months after marrying the former personal trainer.

Ms Nazlioglu broke her social media silence in the early hours of Thursday morning to share a photo of the once happy couple in a cheeky embrace.

The newlyweds were pictured in a parking lot, but not where he was killed.

In the photo, Ms. Nazlioglu wore a yellow dress with white strappy stiletto shoes, while her tattooed husband donned a T-shirt, sweatpants and sneakers – with a designer watch and a diamond-encrusted wedding ring.

The young bride also held a white Chanel handbag – her own diamond wedding ring clearly visible.

A loved one commented, “I’m thinking of you Jade.”

Someone else wrote: ‘I’m thinking of you at this time, Jade.’

The unidentified killer is known to have waited in a silver hatchback for the couple to return home in their black Mercedes at 6 p.m. Monday, before unloading on Mr Nazlioglu.

There was a pool of blood in the parking lot where he was shot.

His wife called emergency services.

The silver hatchback was set on fire a few blocks away from the shooting.

The murder is being investigated by police and no arrests have been made.

Nazlioglu walked free from Silverwater’s Metropolitan Remand and Reception Center, in Sydney’s west, last September – after serving three years for firearms possession.

He soon began a whirlwind romance with his future wife, who used Jade Heffer – a fitness instructor 13 years his junior who grew up in the regional town of Barham, about 800km south west of Sydney, on the NSW/Victoria border. †

They moved into an apartment in Rhodes together before getting married on January 25 this year – four months after his release from prison.

The day before Ms. Nazlioglu witnessed her husband’s brutal death, she was pictured on Facebook wearing a form-fitting black dress, strappy sandals and a black designer handbag.

“Birthday week,” read the caption.

It is widely believed that Nazlioglu’s death came about because he was previously charged with the murder of former Comanchero leader, Mick Hawi – who was shot dead in February 2018 in a cemetery outside Fitness First Gym in Rockdale.

His co-defendant was friend and fellow Lone Wolf member Ahmad ‘Adam’ Doudar, 38.

Nazlioglu was accused of being the shooter and Doudar of throwing out a getaway car.

Doudar would plead guilty to complicity in Hawi’s murder and was sentenced to three years and four months’ unconditional prison term.

After a week of deliberation, a jury found Nazlioglu not guilty of murder, but he then pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge of possession of a firearm and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Chief Inspector Martin Hayston said on Tuesday that detectives believe the attack was “targeted.”

“The person who approached the 40-year-old man and shot him was clearly there to do so, there are several investigations underway into the motive,” he said.

Nazlioglu’s death marked the end of a six-week run without a fatal shooting in Sydney as the city grapples with a bloody underworld war that has seen at least 14 men shot in the past two years.

Detectives say the murder does not appear to be related to the feud between the Alameddine and Hamzy networks at this stage of the investigation.