{"id":80855,"date":"2026-08-26T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/80855\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:00:06","slug":"police-find-body-in-search-for-missing-melbourne-father-khaled-malas-after-alleged-shooting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/80855\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find body in search for missing Melbourne father Khaled Malas after alleged shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives have found a body in the search for a father allegedly shot over a debt in Melbourne\u2019s northwest last week.<\/p>\n<p>Police announced on Wednesday they had found a body, which is yet to be formally identified, as part of the investigation into the missing 37-year-old Khaled Malas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Malas was allegedly shot by Mohammed Aboueid, 56, at semirural Wildwood on August 19.<\/p>\n<p>He has not been seen since. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Victorian Police confirmed they had found a body about 15km from Wildwood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe yet-to-be-formally identified remains were found around 3pm covered in grass on Havelock Road in Clarkefield,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coroner has been advised and a post-mortem will occur in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Aboueid has been charged with intentionally causing serious injury but police said the charges will be assessed after a post-mortem is performed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice believe the parties involved were known to each other,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Police initially appealed for any information on the movements of a black Mitsubishi Triton seen around Greenvale, Sunbury, Bulla, Oaklands Junction, or Wildwood on the night of August 19 into the early morning of August 20.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Malas has three children, and the Herald Sun reports he went from his home in Melbourne\u2019s northern suburbs, to Wildwood in the northwest, with two associates because of a debt.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Mr Malas was allegedly shot in the torso. His clothes were found burnt on the side of a road outside Wildwood the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives have found a body in the search for a father allegedly shot over a debt in Melbourne\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65370,37466,37547,42709,126690,54853,126686,126696,43313,126695,126704,45795,126697,52548,126688,91574,44042,22,60825,126694,126699,21,3791,113543,76125,36699,83031,39649,124195,61319,113132,126687,124030,37482,37392,126683,260,9260,126692,126700,126693,126685,379,126701,126702,3121,1047,1057,126703,41928,110099,40412,42680,40303,5606,41012,126689,42729,65333,39248,71759,37928,36692,37146,45954,126684,126698,92733,38707,126691,35098,22441,113549],"class_list":["post-80855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-northern-suburbs","tag-s-northwest","tag-3pm","tag-42709","tag-a-black-mitsubishi-triton","tag-a-body","tag-a-debt","tag-a-debt-it","tag-a-father","tag-a-grim-update","tag-a-missing-man","tag-a-police-spokesperson","tag-a-post-mortem","tag-a-road","tag-about-15km","tag-an-alleged-shooting","tag-any-information","tag-au","tag-august-19","tag-august-19-he","tag-august-20-mr","tag-austrlia","tag-body","tag-bulla","tag-clarkefield","tag-detectives","tag-due-course","tag-each-other","tag-grass","tag-greenvale","tag-grim","tag-havelock-road","tag-his-clothes","tag-his-home","tag-last-week","tag-malas","tag-melbourne","tag-missing-man","tag-missing-melbourne-father-khaled-malas","tag-mohammed-aboueid","tag-mr-aboueid","tag-mr-malas","tag-newswire-news","tag-northwest-melbourne","tag-oaklands-junction","tag-part","tag-police","tag-search","tag-semirural-wildwood","tag-serious-injury","tag-sunbury","tag-the-charges","tag-the-coroner","tag-the-early-morning","tag-the-herald-sun","tag-the-investigation","tag-the-missing-37-year-old-khaled-malas-mr-malas","tag-the-movements","tag-the-next-morning","tag-the-night","tag-the-northwest","tag-the-parties","tag-the-search","tag-the-side","tag-the-spokesperson","tag-the-torso","tag-the-yet-to-be-formally-identified-remains","tag-their-search","tag-three-children","tag-two-associates","tag-victorian-police","tag-wednesday","tag-wildwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}