A MAN has been charged over a shooting in Patterson Lakes last week.
Police allege that a man was shot in the lower body from a moving car. The alleged incident occurred in a car park on Thompsons Road just before 6pm on 23 February.
The victim survived the alleged attack.
The following day, around 4.30pm, Armed Crime Squad detectives arrested a 27-year-old Clyde man and charged him over the alleged shooting. He was charged with intentionally cause serious injury, manufacture handgun, makes threats to kill, reckless conduct endangering life, prohibited person possess, and prohibited person use a firearm.
After executing a warrant at a property on Foote Way, Clyde, police seized firearms, ammunition, and implements police alleged “to be used in the manufacture of homemade firearms”.
The alleged offender was remanded in custody to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 25 February.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 3 March 2021