Nabil Maghnie shooting: Gunman still at large a month after murder
He was shot dead in public a month ago, but underworld hardman Nabil Maghnie’s killer is still roaming the streets as police try to piece together what happened.
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The gunman who a witness said fired on underworld hardman Nabil Maghnie and others until his weapon ran out of bullets remains free a month after the killing.
Homicide squad investigators have spoken to dozens of people as part of their inquiry into the death of Maghnie at Epping on January 9.
It is not known whether investigators have recovered the weapon used to kill Maghnie and wound two other men, one of them his son Abbas.
A possible spark for the fatal confrontation remains that Maghnie was angered by allegations his daughter was assaulted during a road rage incident in the northern suburbs.
One theory is that Maghnie, 44, demanded money and assaulted a man soon after arriving at a Dalton Rd property.
Someone else then emerged and opened fire on the visiting group.
Maghnie died at the scene while Abbas and another man who had arrived at the property with his group were wounded.
A witness later told media that the shooter opened fire on Maghnie and a 44-year-old associate before crossing the street in full view of passers-by.
The witness said the gunman looked calm and unconcerned about being seen, only stopping when he ran out of ammunition.
Maghnie was one of Melbourne’s most feared crime figures and had been charged more than 200 times.
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He had been a person of interest for the Sector taskforce, which investigated the March murder of Mitat Rasimi at Dandenong and the Love Machine drive-by double-murder of last April.
Another of his son’s, 18-year-old Jacob Elliott, has been charged over the Love Machine killings.