Two men have died after allegedly being stabbed in Melbourne in the early hours of Thursday morning.
A woman was arrested on a tram at a stop in Carlton after two men were fatally stabbed at an address at Hope Street in Brunswick.
Emergency services were called to the scene about 5.20am where they found a man in his 50s with fatal stab wounds. He was taken to hospital but died in the ambulance on the way there.
Another man, 59, was also found dead.
Acting assistant police commissioner Mick Frewen said reports were then received by police that there was a female on a tram “covered in blood” on the way into the city. Police then arrested her.
“At this stage, we don’t know the interrelationship between all parties,” Frewen said.
“Homicide investigators are on scene working through obviously a complex double homicide scene, as well as the tram.
“What we’re trying to understand [is what] unfolded over the course of late last night, early this morning.”
The woman is now being treated in hospital for minor injuries and police have been unable to interview her as yet. No charges have been laid.
Earlier, in a separate incident, police were called to Bangalore Way in Mickleham in Melbourne’s north after receiving reports that 22-year-old man Korey Kesici had been shot.
“What we know at this point is that he left his home address and had a short discussion with a number of males in a BMW sedan,” Frewen said.
A burnt-out BMW was found on the side of a nearby road and police believe it is the same vehicle used in the shooting.
Police and emergency services were called to the street at about 12.05am where they found Kesici’s body in the middle of the street.
Frewen said it wasn’t a “random shooting”.
“It was more than a simple street exchange,” he said.
“The people that arrived in that street at that time came prepared for violence.
“They were armed, they had a vehicle that we believe obviously had been burnt-out and you know, they obviously wanted to destroy evidence.”
The men in the car have not been found and a police search is under way.
“I want to reassure the public that we’re throwing all the available resources from homicide, state anti-gang division and local resources into solving this as soon as we can.”
Police do not believe the incidents are related and are asking for anyone with any information on either incident to come forward.
