UPDATE
Police are yet to confirm whether or not this morning fatal drive-by shooting in Thomastown is related to a similar incident in the same street earlier this month.
A 50-year-old was fatally wounded and four-year-old boy injured after after drive-by shooting targeting a Thomastown house early this morning.
Police have been told that a number of shots were fired into the Darebin Drive address around 3.45am.
Neighbours have described hearing at least six shots ring out.
“To be honest, I thought it was my son playing those video games,” one woman told The Age.
It’s believed one of the rounds hit the man, aged in his 50s, in the torso area. He was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition but died a few hours later.
POLICE AT THE SCENE OF THE SHOOTING. PICTURE: JOE ARMAO
The four-year-old boy suffered a non-life threatening injury and was taken to hospital for treatment.
There were a number of other people at home at the time of the incident but they were not injured.
Earlier shooting
Less than two weeks ago another Darebin Drive, Lalor home of Mounir and Renata Ahmad and their three children was also the target of a drive-by attack.
Most of the bullets hit two parked cars out the front of their house, however one went through their front window above their sleeping eight-year-old daughter.
Darebin Drive runs through the border of Lalor and Thomastown.
THE VICINITY OF THIS MORNING’S SHOOTING
A Darebin Drive resident, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the spate of shootings have led the family to forego their nightly walks.
“We stay indoors now. It’s the looks you get from people,” she said. “It’s [the shootings] everywhere now.”
Homicide Squad detectives are appealing to anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or make a confidential report at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au
