Mr Takpiny translated for his grieving aunt who cried as she spoke of her slain son at her Maidstone home. "In her words, she came to Australia to stay away from war and bullets. Today a bullet has claimed her son. The very same bullet and fighting that she ran away from." A gunman in a stolen Porsche Cayenne, believed to be armed with a high powered automatic weapon, sprayed the nightclub with bullets about 3am on April 14, killing 37-year-old security guard Aaron Khalid Osmani and critically injuring Mr Arow. Mr Arow, a talented soccer player who worked in transport logistics, died in The Alfred hospital on Friday night. Richard Arow died on Friday night, days after being shot outside Love Machine nightclub. Credit:Facebook

His mother and sister Achol had sat by his hospital bed for up to 20 hours each day. "He's always been my protector. Like protecting me in the sense we're like I know he's always there," Achol told Nine News on Monday. "He always used to tell me that he'll be there for me 110 per cent no matter what. Not having him here, it hurts. It hurts so much." On Facebook, she wrote about rushing to the hospital in the hours after her brother was shot where doctors explained they had tried everything they could to save him. "If I were to be quite honest, everything became a blur after that moment. The state of instant shock lasted a few hours turned into several days," Achol wrote.

"Seeing you laying down on that hospital bed broke my heart into pieces. The only thing that kept our hope alive was the fact you still had a heartbeat. We prayed so much to see a miracle. But truth is, God had other plans for you my beloved brother." Richard Arow recently applied for his dream job of being an MFB firefighter. Mr Arow volunteered in youth justice and helped train young Brimbank Stallion soccer players. He had been skydiving in Mexico on holiday with his girlfriend Rebekah Spinks earlier this year. Ms Spinks said he had applied to become a firefighter to be a representative of the south-Sudanese community in Australia. "It was really important to him. He was very passionate about it. It started with football but it became more than that," she said.