Hit team seen running from execution in Melbourne’s north

Updated October 16, 2026 — 10:46am,first published 10:44pmA hit team executed a man outside a home in Melbourne’s outer north on Thursday evening before fleeing the scene in a car and on foot. CCTV footage from Gypsum Drive in Wollert shows the incident unfolding about 5.30pm, with a woman left screaming next to the man’s body on the footpath.The scene was cordoned off on Friday while homicide squad detectives investigated. Police confirmed the victim was a 42-year-old Wollert man.“No arrests have been made and at this early stage of the investigation, police are treating the incident as targeted,” police said in a statement.Footage obtained by this masthead shows two black-clad figures run from Gypsum Drive into nearby Lowline Way, getting into a red sedan and speeding away. Police officers in Wollert on Friday after a man was shot dead on Thursday afternoon.Wayne TaylorA series of gunshots are heard in quick succession before a third man, also wearing black, appears to pick up a black bag and run off through a park and then along a residential street.A crime scene has been established on Gypsum Drive.Wayne TaylorAnother video obtained by Nine News shows paramedics comforting a distressed woman as she sits on the ground next to the victim.Manav Matharoo, who lives on nearby Lowline Way, ran outside after the shooting and saw a woman sobbing uncontrollably.“When we learned there had been a shooting next door it was a real shock,” he said. “It’s never happened before, we couldn’t sleep the whole night.”Police believe the shooting was a targeted attack.NineAlok Singh said the woman was crying and “screaming at the top of her voice, I think she was just in shock.”In the same suburb last year, Melbourne underworld figure Athan Boursinos was shot in a laneway behind his family home.Alexander Darling is a breaking news reporter at The Age. He has previously worked at the ABC, as well as Horsham’s Wimmera Mail-Times and Triple M radio stations in NSW.Connect via email.Lachlan Abbott is a crime reporter at The Age. He was previously a city reporter and covered breaking news.Connect via email.From our partners