Major update after homeless man allegedly stabs stranger to death at Frankston Pier

A homeless man has been charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed a stranger to death at a popular swimming destination.

Police were called to Frankston Pier, in Melbourne’s southeast, following reports of an assault just after 6am on Saturday.

A 45-year-old man from Cranbourne North was found unresponsive and died at the scene.

Police arrested a 36-year-old man on the foreshore shortly after the gruesome discovery.

The man, who has no fixed address, has been charged with murder over the older man’s death.

He will appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Sunday.

On Saturday afternoon, the crime scene was cordoned off as investigators and State Emergency Services combed for evidence.

‘Homicide Squad detectives are investigating and at this stage are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident,’ Victoria Police said in a statement.

‘It is also believed the parties involved were not known to one another.’

One passerby recalled the moment they ran to the man’s aid following the incident.

‘I checked the dude but there was no sign of life at all … no twitching, no noise, no nothing,’ he told the Herald Sun.

‘I didn’t know whether to stay there with him or (not). I just saw the guy walking off and I just thought I couldn’t let him walk away,’ the witness claimed.

‘He stopped like he was thinking for a second … and then walked off.’

He said the incident had lasted less than a minute and had left him shaken as he had started fishing from the pier hours earlier at 3.30am. 

‘I was fishing on the other side of him (closest to the foreshore) a couple of minutes before it happened,’ he said.