Police appeal for public help to find shooting victim Jarrod Turner’s killer

A killer is on the run and police are calling for public help after a Hobart man was shot dead and left at the side of a highway.

A KILLER is on the run and police are calling for public help after a Hobart man was shot dead and left at the side of a highway.

The shooting came to light shortly before 6am on Sunday after police received reports of a man’s body found with gunshot wounds on Colebrook Rd about 2km north of Richmond.

Colebrook Rd remained closed today after the body of a young man was found by the roadside with a gunshot wound to the head early on Sunday. Picture: RICHARD JUPE

A Tasmania Police bus near the area where Jarrod Turner’s body was found. Picture: RICHARD JUPE

Police today identified the man’s body as 22-year-old Jarrod Leigh Turner, of Gagebrook.

It is not yet known why he was in the area or what sparked his killing.

When asked if Tasmanians should be concerned about a killer at large, Bellerive CIB Detective Inspector Doug Rossiter said: “We don’t think people should have cause for alarm”.

“This is a tragic incident and it would appear to us the victim may have known the people he was with [at the time he was shot],” Insp Rossiter said.

He said detectives believed there were people within the community who had information critical to solving the crime.

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Detective Inspector Doug Rossiter talking to reporters at Bellerive Police Station about the shooting death of Jarrod Turner, of Gagebrook. Picture: MATT THOMPSON

‘We’re aware from information we’ve received that there are people who are talking about this that haven’t come forward to police,” he said.

“No matter how small, as with something this serious, we just need people to call us and let us know.”

Insp Rossiter wouldn’t disclose what type of firearm was used or the extent of information gathered from today’s post-mortem examination.

A Facebook image of Jarrod Turner.

Hundreds of Mr Turner’s friends and family took to social media yesterday to pay tribute to the life of a young man gone too soon.

Mr Turner’s twin brother Ashley wrote: “I can’t do it without my twin brother, I need you Jarrod, you’re my role model — the one I looked up to, my rock, everything a brother could ever want. I miss you”.

Kirsten Baillie wrote: “Rest in peace Jarrod, you’ll be missed by so many people. Gone but never forgotten”.

Mr Turner’s death was initially treated as a pedestrian accident but was later categorised as suspicious when detectives deemed his wounds to be consistent with a gunshot.

Richmond’s Colebrook Rd between Franklin St and Fingerpost Rd remained closed again today as police continued crime scene investigations.