Police investigate double murder after mystery chest wound found on mate of bikie killed in park
Police investigating the murder of a Gold Coast bikie say his friend who was found dead after a car crash nearby may have also been shot.
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POLICE investigating the murder of a Gold Coast bikie say his friend who was found dead after a car crash nearby may have also been shot.
Detectives have confirmed they are treating the deaths of Commancheros bikie Shane Ross and his friend Cameron Martin as a double murder.
Martin, 47, was found dead in the wreckage of his white Mercedes in Tallebudgera Valley on
Friday night, hours after he and Ross were drinking together at a Gold Coast tavern.
The body of Ross, 36, was found in nearby bushland on Monday with ‘significant’ head injuries believed to have been caused by gunshots.
Regional crime co-ordinator Superintendent Kerry Johnson said a mystery puncture wound found in Martin’s chest may also be the result of a gunshot.
Supt Johnson said the Mercedes hit a tree at high speed but the wound was ‘highly suspicious’ and a post-mortem today would determine if Mr Martin may have been shot.
“Whether it was a stab wound, gunshot wound, puncture wound … it could be anything,” he told reporters.
“There is a distinctive wound on him and we’ll be making inquiries on that.
“We’re treating both matters as suspicious deaths.
“Earlier in the evening, they (Ross and Martin) were together and they’ve both been found dead within a kilometre (or) a kilometre-and-half of each other.
“It is being treated as a double murder investigation.”
Supt Johnson said he had not seen a rise in bikie tensions following the shooting and there was no need for public concern ‘other than the normal concern that someone had been murdered’.
He said a team of 40 detectives are involved in the investigation.
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