Sam Abdulrahim, a 32-year-old former gangland figure who had recently turned to boxing, was shot dead in a car park in Preston, Melbourne on Tuesday morning. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death and have cordoned off the area. A burnt-out car, believed to be linked to the shooting, was found in Reservoir.
, has been shot dead in the northern suburb of Preston after surviving several previous attempts on his life.The 32-year-old gangland figure-turned-boxer recently wentVictoria Police confirmed homicide squad detectives were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Preston on Tuesday morning.
One woman was sitting on the ground, her hands covering her face, as she was comforted by a group of people. His Lalor home, shot up in another drive-by and then later firebombed, was left abandoned and unliveable. The Tuesday shooting comes as police and underworld sources suspect a series of seemingly random or unexplained violent attacks in the past six months are linked to enemies of Abdulrahim, whoLess than two kilometres away from the scene of the shooting, in the nearby suburb of Reservoir, more than a dozen detectives, police and forensic officers surrounded a torched car at the end of Alexandra Street, off Northernhay Street.
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