A Love Machine security guard has recalled the tragic moments after the nightclub was shot at
A security guard has shared the heartbreaking moment two of his friends took their last breaths after being sprayed with bullets outside the Love Machine nightclub in Prahran a year ago.
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A mate of the two Love Machine nightclub murder victims has paid a moving tribute to them ahead of the first anniversary of the drive-by shooting tragedy.
Security guard Joey Hosri opened up in a post on Instagram and spoke of the victims’ final moments as he battled to save them.
Mr Hosri was there when colleague Aaron Khalid Osmani, 37, and patron Richard Arow, 28, suffered fatal gunshot wounds outside the Prahran club last April 14.
“In my world, shooting someone is easy. In any world, feeling a soul leave a body with your own hands, that’s something else,” Mr Hosri wrote.
“That last breath, the last gasp. Then emptiness. Motionless. Breathless.
“That sticks with you, a reality. That all our souls will one day leave our bodies and our bodies made of dust, unto dust we shall return.”
Mr Hosri wrote it was a year this weekend since the shooting. “But (it) still feels like yesterday. And to most, it was too long ago to recall. My heart aches … but my faith overwhelms it.”
Mr Osmani and Mr Arow died when the club was sprayed with bullets from a Porsche SUV at 3am.
Jacob Elliott, 18, has been charged with two counts of murder and also faces three counts of attempted murder.
He is the son of gangland figure Nabil Maghnie, who was shot dead in Melbourne’s northern suburbs in January.
Allan Fares, 22, of Preston, is facing the same charges as Mr Elliott.
The eviction of one of Maghnie’s other sons from Love Machine just hours before the shooting was a key police inquiry into the attack.
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