Tributes for slain man
POLICE scoured grassland for evidence yesterday in the hope it could help them find the shooter responsible for a mysterious Corio death.
A man, identified on social media as Chris
“Legzy” Jacobs, died at 4.50am on Saturday after being shot in the backyard of of a Chaffey Square property.
It’s understood the man was living in a caravan behind a house when he was shot.
POLICE scoured grassland for evidence on Sunday in the hope it could lead them closer to the shooter responsible for a mysterious Corio death.
A man, identified on social media as Chris “Legzy” Jacobs, died at 4.50am on Saturday after being shot at the back of a Chaffey Square property.
It’s understood the man was living in a caravan behind a house when he was critically injured.
He was taken to hospital where he later died.
Emma Culliver told the Geelong Advertiser Mr Jacobs had been living in the caravan for some time.
“He was my best friend,”
Ms Culliver said. “He’s not like everybody else, he was different — caring, kind and unique.”
Mr Jacobs is understood to have completed a degree in computer programming at
Deakin University. Friends said he was once a promising surfer but struggled with mental illness and spent some time in the Swanston Centre.
The 39-year-old had had a chequered history and was recently released from jail.
Friend Georgia Finnigan described Mr Jacobs as “so intelligent and so smart”.
“He was cleaning up his act, he did four years at uni but he got into the wrong crowd.”
Ms Finnigan said she was “so, so shocked” by her friend’s death and said Mr Jacob’s biggest issue had been “not seeing his own self worth”.
“I want everyone to know how loved he was, he was always so giving and caring,” she said.
The scene of the man’s death was roped off on Saturday while a second crime scene was established at Goldsworthy Rd.
Forensic police were seen inspecting and taking samples from a dark-coloured Ford Falcon on Goldsworthy Rd.
On Sunday, police and SES could be seen scouring grassland.
Resident Yvette, who preferred not to give her surname, said she saw unmarked police vehicles intercept the car when she went out for a cigarette early in the morning.
“The car took off in a hurry and a divvy van put on its lights and pulled it over,” she said.
A neighbour told News Corp he heard a woman “crying and raving” and had seen her and police officers outside his house in the early hours of the morning.
Another resident said she heard a commotion in the early hours of the morning.
“I’m half deaf so it must have been loud for me to have heard it,” she said.
“It was a ‘bang, bang’.” No arrests had been made at the time of publication.