A person and a lady have been charged with homicide over the deadly capturing of a person on an inner-Melbourne road on Tuesday afternoon.
A 43-year-old Noble Park man and a 21-year-old Yarraville lady had been arrested in Dallimore Court docket, Noble Park, in Melbourne's south-east, about 5.30pm yesterday.
Their arrests come as a part of police's investigation into the killing of 55-year-old Fitzroy man Brian Laidlaw on Napier Avenue in Fitzroy about 4.15pm on Tuesday.
Police believed the sufferer had been concerned in an altercation with individuals in a black Audi parked on the road earlier than he was fatally shot.
Detective Superintendent Paul O'Halloran informed 3AW radio the sufferer was allegedly sitting within the automobile with two individuals he knew, earlier than he received out and tried to run away.
One of many individuals within the automobile then received out and allegedly shot him.
"The person was shot within the again and within the higher physique," O'Halloran mentioned.
"It was focused and we imagine he was identified to (the gunman)."
Police discovered the black Audi in South Yarra yesterday.
They imagine the capturing was a focused incident and have mentioned there aren't any identified hyperlinks to every other latest firearms incidents involving organised crime teams.
Police want to converse anybody who witnessed the incident in Fitzroy, together with the occasions within the lead as much as and after the capturing, or has CCTV or dashcam imaginative and prescient.