Police investigate Reservoir death
Where: Mahoney's Road, Reservoir, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Reservoir last night.
Emergency services responded to reports a man was shot on Mahoney’s Road about 11.50pm on 27 October.
The yet-to-be formally identified man’s death is being treated as suspicious, and a crime scene has been established.
At this stage, police are investigating if the incident was targeted.
No arrests have been made at this stage and the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident remain ongoing.
A short time after the shooting, a vehicle was located burnt out nearby in Thomastown on Robinvale Avenue whereby the offenders left the scene of the fire in a white coloured vehicle, investigators are working to determine if this is linked to the shooting.
— Victoria PoliceCrime in the Darebin council area
Darebin is a council area in Victoria with about 162,496 residents. It has a Crime Score 61 out of 100 (high), 116th of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by break-ins (79th percentile), robbery (93rd percentile), homicide (74th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 59.
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