The loved ones of a Melbourne father who went missing after a shooting in the city’s north-west say they hold grave fears for his welfare.<\/p>\n
Police have been conducting a large-scale search for a 37-year-old man whom the ABC understands to be Khaled Malas.<\/p>\n
Mr Malas, of Meadow Heights, has not been seen since August 19.<\/p>\n
Investigators said he was allegedly shot in the chest that evening about 7:20pm after a dispute at a home in Wildwood.<\/p>\n
Mohammed Aboueid, 56, has been charged with intentionally causing serious injury.<\/p>\n
He appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday night and is due to return in November.<\/p>\n
The ABC understands the dispute allegedly has to do with a $500,000 debt.<\/p>\n
Investigators said they held significant concerns for Mr Malas’s welfare and that it was likely he had succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n
A long-time friend of Mr Malas told the ABC he was a successful auto truck electrician.<\/p>\n
He said family and friends feared the worst.<\/p>\n
“It’s such horrible news,” the friend said.<\/p>\n
“Khaled was a humble hard-working man that loved his young family, it’s absolutely devastating.”<\/p>\n
Police are urging anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The loved ones of a Melbourne father who went missing after a shooting in the city’s north-west say…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1016397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,406627,50,101,166317],"class_list":["post-1016396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-khaled-malas","tag-news","tag-shooting","tag-wildwood"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117137399296624286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}