Keilor village shooting: Underworld figure Gavin ‘Capable’ Preston shot dead in drive-by shooting at Melbourne cafe

A major underworld figure has been shot dead outside of a shopping village on Saturday morning. 

Melbourne crime figure Gavin ‘Capable’ Preston was killed in the drive-by shooting near a cafe at the Keilor Village in the city’s north west. 

It’s believed Preston was shot multiple times, with another man injured in the shooting. 

Victorian Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said the man in his 50’s was shot dead, with the other man allegedly shot in the stomach.  

An underworld source told the Sunday Age, ‘they put a clip into him’. 

Police including SWAT teams and emergency crews have cordoned off Keilor Village after underworld figure Gavin ‘Capable’ Preston was shot in a drive by shooting

Preston, one of Melbourne’s most violent gangland figures, was released from jail in April after he spent 11-years behind bars over the death of a drug trafficker Adam Khoury who was shot in 2012. 

Preston was also involved in a spate of shootings that year after another drug dealer was also injured. 

Preston, who was ‘known’ as capable  because he was ‘capable of anything’ has a significant rapt sheet of violent offences, including armed robbery and the use of weapons, dating  back to when he was 18. 

Sweet Lulu’s cafe in Melbourne’s north-west was rocked by a shooting on Saturday morning, after a underworld figure avin ‘Capable’ Preston was gunned down as authorities investigated the shocking incident

Police and underworld figures had been on alert since Preston’s release. 

The 50-year-old crime figure was suspected of being involved in the death of former bikie Toby Mitchell and had allegedly plotted to kill Mick Gatto.