Overview

• Neighbors reported two loud bangs around 5:12am Tuesday, and a passerby discovered a man’s body about 12 hours later in the front yard of a townhouse complex.
• Homicide detectives have maintained an active crime scene, conducted door-to-door inquiries, and said the shooter remains at large.
• Police have not formally identified the Ivanhoe victim, with reports differing on his age and on whether the scene was on Ivanhoe Street or Linden Avenue.
• Witnesses are urged to provide CCTV or dashcam footage and to contact Crime Stoppers as investigators piece together the timeline.
• In a separate case, a 20-year-old Tarneit man died after arriving at Sunshine Hospital around 2:45am Thursday, which police are treating as a suspicious, targeted attack under homicide squad investigation.