New twist in search for Corio shooting victim Chris Jacobs’ killer

Police have ramped up their search for Chris Jacobs’ killer, after the Corio man was shot dead last week. It comes days after authorities scoured grassland for evidence leading them to the person responsible.

Police and SES are searching a drain in Corio in connection to the shooting death of Chris Jacobs.

The drain is located in Chaffey Squad, Corio, where Mr Jacobs was gunned down in the early hours of last Saturday.

A SES spokesman said the drain is about 1km long and the search will likely stretch into Wednesday afternoon.

Police are yet to charge anyone over Mr Jacobs’ death.

It is understood he was living in a caravan behind a house on Chaffey Sq when he was critically wounded.

It comes as police scoured grassland for evidence on Sunday in the hope it could lead them closer to the shooter responsible for the mysterious death.

It’s understood the man was living in a caravan behind a house when he was critically injured.

He was taken to hospital where he later died.

Emma Culliver told the Geelong Advertiser Mr Jacobs had been living in the caravan for some time.

Chris Jacobs with his beloved German Shepherd, Phoenix.

“He was my best friend,” Ms Culliver said.

“He’s not like everybody else, he was different – caring, kind and unique.”

Mr Jacobs is understood to have completed a degree in computer programming at Deakin University.

Friends says he was once a promising surfer but struggled with mental illness and spent some time in the Swanston Centre.

The 39-year-old had had a chequered history and was recently released from jail.

Friend Georgia Finnigan described Mr Jacobs as “so intelligent and so smart.”

Corio SES volunteers did a sweep of Chaffey and Horne squares after meeting with a police detective at the scene on Sunday morning. A man died after being shot in Corio this morning. The incident happened at an address in Chaffey Square. Picture: Alan Barber

“He was cleaning up his act, he did four years at uni but he got into the wrong crowd.”

Ms Finnigan said she was “so, so shocked” by her friend’s death and said Mr Jacob’s biggest issue had been “not seeing his own self worth”.

“I want everyone to know how loved he was, he was always so giving and caring,” she said.

The scene of the man’s death was roped off on Saturday while a second crime scene was established at Goldsworthy Rd.

The house where an incident is believed to have resulted in a shooting at Chaffey Square, Corio. Corio SES volunteers did a sweep of Chaffey and Horne squares after meeting with a police detective at the scene on Sunday morning. A man died after being shot in Corio on Saturday morning. Picture: Alan Barber

Forensics police were seen inspecting and taking samples from a dark-coloured Ford Falcon on Goldsworthy Rd.

On Sunday, police and SES could be seen scouring grassland.

Resident Yvette, who preferred not to give her surname, said she saw unmarked police vehicles intercept the car when she went out for a cigarette early this morning.

“The car took off in a hurry and a divy van put on its lights and pulled it over,” she said.

Police inspect a car on Golsworthy Rd Corio believed to have been linked to the early morning shooting death. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

A neighbour told NewsCorp he heard a woman “crying and raving” and had seen her and police officers outside his house in the early hours of the morning.

Another nearby resident said she heard a commotion in the early hours of the morning.

“I’m half deaf so it list I have been loud for me to have heard it,” she said.

“It was a ‘bang, bang’.”

Police would not reveal any more details about the man’s death on Sunday, except to say it was being treated as an homicide investigation.

No arrests had been made at the time of publication.

— with Herald Sun

Originally published as New twist in search for Corio shooting victim Chris Jacobs’ killer