Vic: Pair escape shooting on Chapel Street

AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2008
Vic: Pair escape shooting on Chapel Street

MELBOURNE, April 20 AAP - Two people have escaped serious injury when a shot was fired
at a car in inner-city Melbourne.

The driver, a 22-year-old man, and his passenger, an 18-year-old woman, were stopped
in their car at the corner of Chatham and Chapel streets, Prahran, when a man fired a
gun at the car about midnight (AEST), police said today.

The gunman then fled in another vehicle.

The 22-year-old man was not injured and his passenger received a minor injury to her
head, but did not require hospital treatment.

Both were from Melbourne's western suburbs.

Police are calling for any witnesses to come forward.

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