{"id":752417,"date":"2026-06-22T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752417\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:40:16","slug":"hussein-dehaini-shooting-melbourne-cctv-released-amid-probe-into-shooting-of-ex-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752417\/","title":{"rendered":"Hussein Dehaini shooting melbourne: CCTV released amid probe into shooting of ex-boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have released CCTV of a car they are looking for as part of their investigation after a former professional boxer with suspected underworld links was gunned down during a brazen ambush<\/a> in\u00a0Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hussein Dehaini, 33, was walking just metres away from his apartment along Mount Alexander Road in Ascot Vale when he was shot <\/a>near a packed bar in the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

\"Hussein<\/p>\n

Hussein Dehaini was walking just metres away from his apartment along Mount Alexander Road in Ascot Vale, Melbourne when he was shot near a packed bar.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

Police say the shooter<\/a>, a man, approached him in the street and \u201cfired a number of shots\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dehaini\u00a0tried to get home but collapsed and died on the way to hospital.<\/p>\n

The shooter got into a nearby white Mercedes and headed west along North Street, police say.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police have released CCTV of a car they are looking for after a former professional boxer with suspected underworld links was gunned down during a brazen ambush in\u00a0Melbourne.\u00a0Victoria Police<\/p>\n

Officers saw the car being driven erratically heading south along Smithfield Road towards Footscray.<\/p>\n

It almost hit a man walking near the roundabout at the intersection of Epsom Road and Racecourse Road in Flemington.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re appealing for him, as well as any other witnesses who saw the car to come forward.<\/p>\n

They say they don\u2019t know who else was in the car, and believe the shooting was a targeted attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released CCTV of a car they are looking for as part of their investigation after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-752417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}