The house in Sunshine North where the shooting is believed to have taken place. Credit:Justin McManus She was carried downstairs by her partner, who loaded her into a car and drove to the nearby Sunshine Hospital. Once he was there, he drew the attention of police. When he tried to leave, covered in blood, they followed him. It was about 9.10pm on Thursday. Soon after, he was involved in two crashes on Furlong Road, the main road between the townhouse and the hospital, before hijacking a car he crashed into during the second collision. A car was left on its roof during the incident, and two people suffered minor injuries.

An overturned car involved in the collision. Credit:Twitter/7NewsMelbourne Detective Inspector Mick Hughes said the man was arrested soon after, and a gun was found nearby. The man was suspected of involvement in the shooting, but Inspector Hughes described the killing only as a "firearms incident" and the man had not been charged by late afternoon. One of the crime scenes along Furlong Road. Credit:Twitter/7NewsMelbourne The man and the woman were both known to police, Inspector Hughes said, but he did not know the details of this, or whether police had previously been called to the house the couple shared.

He said the victim was the mother of an adult daughter and had been in the relationship for only a couple of months. Inspector Hughes would not say whether the man was drug affected during the incident, but said on Friday morning that he was sleeping and so had yet to be interviewed. He said he believed the blood had been left in the driveway as the man tried to transport the victim. "She's bleeding severely, and he has put her in the car with the intention of taking her to hospital," Inspector Hughes said. A neighbour in the avenue said that she heard a loud bang and sirens late last night, before walking north to Furlong Road and seeing a car on its roof.

She said police were on the scene immediately and urgently told her to go home and stay inside. They were walking the neighbourhood with police dogs soon after. "There were police just absolutely everywhere, so I don't know if someone was on the run," the neighbour said. She was woken about 12.30am on Friday by police asking if she had seen anything earlier that evening. It remained unclear more than 18 hours after the incident what had occurred in Gumtree Close, north of the hospital, where police raided a house about the time the man was being pursued.

A resident confirmed he arrived home late on Thursday night to be told police had been searching his property in relation to the incident. But they were gone by the time he arrived, and he did not know why his property was searched. He has checked CCTV from his house, which shows police entering through a closed garage door, but nobody else can be seen in the footage, and police had been unable to give him an explanation when he contacted them on Friday. He did not know the people involved in the incident, he said. Streets around the hospital were in lockdown for several hours as police tried to piece together the chaotic chain of events, but were reopened on Friday morning.

Police confirmed there had been four crime scenes established: the townhouse, the hospital, and the two crash sites, and believed Gumtree Close may have drawn attention because of a false report.