Drive-by shooting at home linked to man working at Love Machine nightclub

A home linked to a crowd controller working at Love Machine nightclub the night of a fatal double shooting was blasted by bullets.

A vehicle linked to the alleged shooting was found in Wollert on Saturday. Source: Supplied.

A drive-by shooter has blasted a home linked to a crowd controller who was working the Love Machine club’s door the night of a double-fatal gun attack.

Police said today they believed the peppering of a house in Melbourne’s outer-north with high-powered gunfire was targeted and not a random attack.

The Sunday Herald Sun has been told former Love Machine crowd controller Joseph Hosri is connected to people from the Wollert home which came under fire.

It is not known whether he was at the address.

Multiple shots were fired into the front of the house at about 1.30am.

Two people who were at home were uninjured as the neighbourhood woke to loud retorts.

A white hatchback suspected of being used in the shooting was found elsewhere in Wollert at 5.30am.

Mr Hosri was working the door at Love Machine in April, 2019, when a drive-by shooter opened fire.

His colleague and friend Aaron Osmani and patron Richard Arow were killed.

Mr Hosri later declined to help police investigators and was forced by authorities to testify in a court hearing.

There is no indication the Wollert shooting was connected to the events at Love Machine.

Jacob Elliott and Allan Fares, have been charged with two counts of murder and three of attempted murder over the Love Machine violence.

Mr Elliott is the son of gangland figure Nabil Maghnie, who was shot dead in January, 2020.