Nabil Maghnie captured in Carpool Karaoke-style singalong
He might’ve been one of the most feared men in Melbourne’s underworld, but Nabil Maghnie apparently enjoyed belting out a tune. Footage circulating on social media shows slain crime figure in a lighter moment.
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Nabil Maghnie might have been one of the most feared men in Melbourne’s underworld but there was another side to the northern suburbs tough guy.
Video circulating on social media shows Maghnie smashing out his own animated rendition of Ride Like the Wind, the 1970s hit by Christopher Cross.
Maghnie — who was shot dead at Lalor last Thursday — is a passenger in a car cruising through the countryside during the Carpool Karaoke-style moment.
The homicide squad is continuing to investigate the death of Maghnie, which happened during a confrontation at a property in Dalton Rd.
Two other men, one of them his son Abbas, were wounded in the incident.
Ride Like the Wind is a first-person account of a man running from the law.
It contains the lyrics:
I was born the son of a lawless man
Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand
Lived nine lives
Gunned down ten
Gonna ride like the wind.
Police are investigating whether Maghnie was bashing a standover victim moments before being shot dead.
The Herald Sun believes a key line of inquiry is that Maghnie was assaulting a man just before the fatal confrontation at Lalor, in Melbourne’s north.
Maghnie, his son Abbas, 27, and another man, 44, are believed to have arrived at a Dalton Rd, Epping house on Thursday night to collect payment of a large “debt”.
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That money was being demanded to compensate for minor damage to the car of a Maghnie family member.
Maghnie is then believed to have attacked the householder before someone else at the property pulled out a gun and opened fire.
“Negotiations have broken down,” a police source said.
Maghnie was fatally shot and collapsed with his stricken 44-year-old associate at the edge of the road.
Abbas is believed to have run to the Taco Bill Restaurant at the intersection of Dalton and Childs roads to get help.