Police have formally identified the body of a man located deceased in a vehicle in Nar Nar Goon North on Monday 26 August as a 23-year-old Pakenham man.
A passerby located the man inside a white vehicle on Mount Ararat Road at about 3.15pm and called police.
His death is not being treated as suspicious, but police have alleged the incident was connected to the non-fatal shooting of a 58-year-old man in Cranbourne East, which occurred earlier on Monday 26 August.
The man remains in hospital in a stable condition.
Police said they were not looking for anyone else in relation to the non-fatal shooting.
Detectives have been told the 58-year-old man’s daughter called him at about 12.25am on Monday while driving to say she believed an unknown man was following her in another vehicle.
The daughter returned to their Cranbourne East home where an altercation between the man and driver ensued, police report the driver had then gotten out of the vehicle and pushed the man, before shooting him in the abdomen.
