Father Of Three Killed By A Gang In A Brutal Ambush

A FATHER of three has been gunned around a group in a ruthless waylay in a private road.

The man was shot from point-blank range outside an Epping home late on Saturday by the group, who were today as of now being chased by police.

Neighbors told the Herald Sun that prior hours of the shooting a gang of men attempted to break into the house.

One said: “I saw a man holding a bat or board of wood, shouting ‘somebody is going to die’.”

Homicide detective Shane O’connell said police were mindful of an episode toward the evening and it might structure some piece of the investigation.

Investigators were additionally the previous evening scouring vision from a security camera the owner had installed on his house.

It’s accepted the cameras were added to the house around a month back.

Neighbors said there was regular trouble at the home.

“It is an uproarious house, loads of individuals coming and going at all times.”

It is comprehended that the man’s three kids, all under six, were dozing in the house at the time.

Neighbors said the man did not live there and may have been mixed up for the owner.

They said the man had come to help over an obligation issue.

Police might not remark on the hypothesis of mistaken identity.

A gang of no less than five, potentially convey more than one weapon, killed the man about 11pm when they shot him through the chest as he opened the front entryway, then injured his sibling.

Neighbor Debbie Tuckerman, a medical attendant, said she raced to the home to discover a man lying in a pool of blood and his delirious wife shouting by him.

“She was shouting, ‘he is going to die’,” Ms Tuckerman said.

The medical attendant felt for a pulse however couldn’t discover one.

She began CPR and continued working until the paramedics arrived and pronounced the man dead.

As the other men inside the house attempted to pursue the gang, an alternate volley of no less than six shots was discharged, hitting a close-by car.

The group of men then fled through a park and over a footbridge on to the adjacent primary street.

Detectives last night called for witnesses.

The injured man was taken to The Alfred doctor’s hospital not long after the shooting and released hours after.

One neighbor said the owner had enrolled his companions in the city after a prior ­altercation.

“The owner knew there was going to be trouble so he got the others to come over, they were simply there to help him.”

Ms Tuckerman said the dead man’s family had thanked her for attempting to save him.

“They are truly upset. His wife is in stun, she has no idea what to tell the children,” she said.

Homicide detective Sen-Sgt Shane O’connell said the ­victim of the shooting was not an occupant however a companion going by the home.