A manhunt remains to be underway for a gunman who fatally shot a person on a busy inner-Melbourne road yesterday afternoon in what police imagine was a focused assault.
The taking pictures is regarded as the seventeenth in Melbourne this 12 months, and has occurred as police are nonetheless attempting to find one other man who shot lifeless a person in Noble Park, in Melbourne's south-east, about 6am on Monday.
The incident occurred about 4.20pm yesterday on Brunswick Road in Fitzroy North.
Police imagine the sufferer, regarded as a 55-year-old man, was concerned in an altercation with a number of folks earlier than the taking pictures.
He was shot as he left a dark-coloured Audi sedan that had two different folks inside believed to be recognized to him.
Passers-by discovered the person and referred to as triple zero.
Ambulance crews handled the person, who's but to be formally recognized, however he died on the scene.
Police have stated they do imagine the incident was associated to current gang-related shootings.
He stated the deceased man didn't seem to have hyperlinks to any outlaw bike gangs or Center Japanese organised crime teams.
Police are interesting for anybody with info or CCTV or sprint cam footage to come back ahead.
Latest spate of gun violence in Melbourne
The incident follows a spate of current gun violence in Melbourne, with the earlier deadly taking pictures occurring simply 34 hours earlier at about 6am on Monday.
In that incident, a 36-year-old man was visiting a house in Noble Park when he was shot lifeless, earlier than the shooter fled the scene on foot.
Nevertheless, police have stated they don't imagine the current shootings are linked.
One other man was shot lifeless on a residential road in Cranbourne, additionally in Melbourne's south-east, only a fortnight in the past, about 8pm on June 29.
That taking pictures demise got here simply at some point after a sprig of bullets was fired into a house in Broadleaf Drive in Epping, whereas 5 folks have been inside, in a drive-by assault.
Nobody was injured in that taking pictures.
Police imagine that taking pictures was linked to Center Japanese organised crime involving numerous different related incidents within the north and western suburbs.
One of many males inside the home was believed to be 18-year-old Murtada Alessawi, who had lately been bailed to the home after being accused of being a gunman in a suburban shoot-out within the close by suburb of Pascoevale on June 14.
Confronting CCTV of that incident has proven him allegedly blasting an SKS assault rifle into a house, firing greater than 20 rounds, hitting a bungalow behind the property.
The taking pictures of the Epping dwelling got here simply days after the tried assassination of former Mongols bikie Sam Abdulrahim simply earlier than midday on June 25.
He was driving his luxurious Mercedes within the funeral processional on Field Forest Highway in Fawkner when a Mazda pulled up alongside it and somebody open fired at his chest.
He was shot 5 instances however managed to outlive his accidents.
Victoria Police revealed they'd been compelled to intervene and cease a number of combat nights he was planning to compete in and promote, earlier than the taking pictures, conscious he was being focused.
Following that taking pictures, Victoria Police launched a brand new VIPER Taskforce on July 4 to crack down on gang-related violence and organised crime.