A boxer has been shot dead while leaving an Italian restaurant and bar in Melbourne.
Huss ‘Skinny’ Dehaini, aged in his 30s, attended an event that began at Trombar, in Ascot Vale, at 9pm on Saturday and that carried on late into the night.
Mr Dehaini left after midnight and had only walked a few metres towards his car before he was gunned down outside a vacant food truck.
A wounded Mr Dehaini managed to stumble further down Mount Alexander Road before he collapsed outside a Woolworths loading dock, leaving a trail of blood.
He was taken to hospital in a critical condition before he died.
The shooters fled the scene after they were picked up in a getaway car.
Local resident Nicole described the chaos of the shooting.
‘We heard two gunshots around 12.10am,’ she told The Herald Sun.
Huss ‘Skinny’ Dehaini attended an event that began at Trombar, in Ascot Vale, at 9pm and that carried on late into the night
Mr Dehaini left the venue after midnight and had only walked a few metres before he was gunned down outside a vacant food truck
The shooters fled the scene after they were picked up in a getaway car
‘My son rang me from the other room to say that he heard them as well, and he wanted his girlfriend not to leave because he was worried,’ she said.
Victoria Police set up a crime scene and shut down Mount Alexander Road, before reopening it at 11am on Sunday.
North Street remains closed.
A white Alfa Romeo was seen with blood smeared on its door.
No arrests have been made. Detectives have launched an investigation.
Mr Dehaini began his professional boxing career in 2014 and fought in the super-middleweight class.
His last professional fight was in 2019.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
