Overview

• A 23-year-old from Doveton and a 22-year-old from Clyde North were charged with murder and are due in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
• Victoria Police’s Special Operations Group arrested four men in South Melbourne on Wednesday before two were charged.
• A 22-year-old Pakenham man and a 23-year-old Keysborough man were released without charge pending further inquiries.
• Kwar Ater was shot on Elizabeth Street in the early hours of September 7 and was driven by friends to Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he died.
• Homicide detectives are treating the case as targeted, and a senior officer linked it to a recent spate of fatal incidents affecting community safety.