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Shooting arrest

Police have charged a man in relation to a shooting in Hillside on June 12. A 53-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries after being found with a gunshot wound at an address in Bellevue Boulevard about 9.40am. A 51-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested on August 29 and charged with reckless conduct endangering serious injury and various offences. He has been remanded to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on September 4.

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