Ali Ali survived his time in the streets of the Middle East rolling around in luxury cars with a extensive range of automatics and handguns, only to meet his fate at the end of a barrel in Melbourne's northern suburbs.

On Monday night Mr Ali, 28, was found clinging to life 500 metres from another man's body after police were alerted to reports of gunfire in Meadow Heights. He died on the nature strip.

Ali Ali Credit:Sourced

Mr Ali's social media accounts are teeming with images of him holding high powered firearms, some taped in the colours of the Syrian flag. In others, from 2012 to 2015, he is pictured wearing military fatigues in front of bombed out houses.

In another image he is pictured in a room with a portrait of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, on the wall.