Homicide Squad detectives have charged two people with murder following the fatal daylight shooting of a man in Melbourne’s inner north on Tuesday.
Emergency services were called to Napier Street in Fitzroy at 4.15pm on Tuesday, after reports a man had been found with life-threatening injuries.
Police and emergency services personnel at the scene of the shooting in Fitzroy on Tuesday evening.Credit:Luis Ascui
Investigators believe the 55-year-old Fitzroy man was running away from the shooter when he was struck in the back. Passersby found the man lying in the street and called triple zero, but paramedics on the scene could not save him.
A 43-year-old Noble Park man and a 21-year-old Yarraville woman were each charged on Thursday afternoon with murder.
The pair were remanded in custody and will face Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
The man and woman were arrested in Noble Park on Wednesday night following a 24-hour search, with Victoria Police utilising its Special Operations Group.
Investigators leave a public housing block in Fitzroy on Wednesday.Credit:Jason South
The 55-year-old man was shot just a few hundred metres from the Fitzroy police station.
Investigators said earlier this week the shooting was not related to other recent gun violence incidents in Melbourne, after a spate of gun crimes across the city in recent weeks.
The Fitzroy shooting happened less than 48 hours after a separate incident in Noble Park on Monday, where a 36-year-old was killed inside a home on Corrigan Road. The alleged killer fled the scene on foot and has yet to be arrested by police.
Korey Kesici, 22, was shot outside his family home in Mickleham shortly after midnight on May 5 in what police said was a planned hit.
Two days later, another man was rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds following an alleged targeted attack in Melton.
In June, kickboxer and former Mongols bikie Suleiman “Sam” Abdulrahim was peppered with bullets when leaving a funeral in Fawkner.
The shooters crashed their getaway car into a fire hydrant before carjacking a woman and child at gunpoint and fleeing in their Ford Territory, while an injured Abdulrahim drove his Mercedes to Fawkner police station.
Less than a week later, a 49-year-old man was shot and killed on a street in Cranbourne after an altercation with another man.
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