I read about this yesterday. Excerpts from article: "2 Shot dead at AusKick" taken from The Sunday Times, 22/6/03.
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Melbourne gangland figure [x] and another man were gunned down in a van yesterday as they picked up their children from an Auskick clinic.
[x] and another man believed to be [x] were shot in the head as they sat in the van behind Pascoe Vale's Cross Key Hotel as up to 200 children finished a football clinic at an adjoining oval.
There were five children in the van at the time of the shooting but they were not injured.
Many of the children at the clinic witnessed the killings.
"It was in front of all the kids at AusKick and their parents" a local trader told the ABC news.
"The car park was actually chock-a-block. The kids were on the ground, and bang, there it happened in front of the whole lot of them."
"There's lots of little ones and they're traumatised."
"It was about four or five bangs," said the Pascoe Vale coach who gave his name as Roger. "I stopped the game and looked over and it was pandemonium. I saw someone run off. To me, it looked like he had a hood on. He diddn't appear to be running that fast."
He said the children were all visibly shaken, especially a girl aged about five who told him "I've just seen my uncle get shot."
Roger said he believed [x] had young twins, at least one of whom had just finished playing.
A police source said the gang land execution may have been a payback for the murder of crime lord [x].
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What is happening to the world. It's bad enough when some kids parents are killed for one reason or another. But no child should have to witness anything as remotely horrible as that. For the most part, the article seemed to focus on the victims ties to underworld circles and not on the horror subjected upon the innocent kids. No matter what their parents may or may not have been up to, my heart goes out to them.