He is due to appear at the Melbourne Magistrate's Court on Monday afternoon. Police say the incident, which is the fourth fatal shooting in the city in less than a fortnight, is not connected to the three other shootings last week in Kensington, Meadow Heights and Dandenong. A large crime scene was established outside Springvale Authentic Thai Massage early on Monday and homicide squad detectives spent the morning examining a number of items of dark clothing left at the scene. The scene in Springvale. Credit:Simone Fox Koob They also spent time in a car park at the end of the laneway where the man was found. The northbound lanes of Springvale Road reopened about 7am.

Police believe the two parties involved in the Springvale shooting were known to one another. It follows a spate of shootings in Melbourne last week. Four people died in the space of four days after three shootings across the city. The death of the man in Springvale on Sunday means five people have been killed as a result of the four shootings. The anti-gang Echo taskforce has been investigating the first shooting, which occurred about 10pm last Friday at the Melbourne Pavilion on the corner of Racecourse Road and Stubbs Road in Kensington. Police at the scene of a shooting in Springvale. Credit:ABC

Three men were shot outside the Kensington venue, including Craigieburn father Ben Togiai, 30, who died at the scene. Loading On Friday night, NSW Police arrested 25-year-old Mikhael Myko and 27-year-old Abdullah El Nasher during dramatic scenes at a Bankstown apartment block, in which Mr El Nasher jumped from a balcony to avoid police. Mikhael Myko, 25, had an extradition hearing at the Parramatta Local Court on Sunday afternoon and was remanded into the custody of Victoria Police. Two days after the shooting in Kensington, the body of Mitat Rasimi, was found riddled with bullets after he crashed his car in Dawn Avenue, Dandenong.

Then on March 4, Ali Ali, 28, and Deniz Hasan, 40, were found dead 500 metres apart after being shot in a quiet court in Meadow Heights about 10pm. The scene of the shooting is a laneway with a small car park located between a massage parlour and a supermarket which has closed down. Cleaners arrived at the scene about 9am and were pouring chemicals on the road where the body was found. The shooting happened outside Springvale Authentic Thai Massage Credit:Jason South A man who works in the massage parlour but did not want to be identified said they had been there for three years and they had never had any trouble in the laneway.

Police had asked him for CCTV, but the camera outside his shop hadn’t captured anything overnight. The supermarket next door has been abandoned for a year and a half and their cameras were unlikely to be working, he said. Police are keen to speak to any witnesses to the Springvale shooting and anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au With Erin Pearson