A suspected gunman remains on the run after a targeted shooting left a man and a woman dead. It all unfolded before dawn at Rye on the Mornington Peninsula, just weeks out from the summer holiday influx. Local residents were left shaken and confused as throngs of police descended on the town to investigate the deadly shootings.
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00:00Detectives swarmed the quiet street after early morning gunshots shattered the beachside
00:08serenity.
00:09I heard a sharp bang.
00:10It's very, very uncharacteristic again for the court.
00:13Very, very uncharacteristic.
00:14Police say a man and a woman went to this home on Parsons Street at about 4am.
00:20It's unclear the circumstances behind the shooting or whose hand was on the trigger,
00:24but a fight broke out and shots were fired, leaving the woman badly wounded as well as
00:29the 29-year-old male resident who was known to police.
00:33They were known to each other, all the parties, and that it was targeted.
00:39These skid marks offer a clue as to what happened next.
00:43Police believe the other man fled as the pair lay dying.
00:46Emergency services arrived, but they couldn't be saved.
00:49We are very concerned.
00:52We don't know if there is a firearm still outstanding.
00:54Pretty freaked out since it's on the street.
00:57We've only been living here for a few months, so yeah, it is quite scary.
01:02By daybreak, the street was a crime scene.
01:05Detectives spent hours going door to door for potential witnesses to the shootings.
01:09But in the popular summer destination, filled with holiday homes and short-term rentals,
01:14few people were home.
01:16I didn't think anything of it because it's such a quiet area.
01:19Police say they're trying to locate the man with the highest urgency, but they don't have
01:23a description of the getaway vehicle and it's unclear if there were any witnesses.
01:28They're also working to formally identify the dead woman as a complicated investigation
01:33continues.