Ben Togiai left behind a three-year-old-daughter Alyssa. Photo / Facebook
Ben Togiai left behind a three-year-old-daughter Alyssa. Photo / Facebook
A man wanted by police for four months following the shooting of a Kiwi man outside a Melbourne boxing match has handed himself in.
Ali El Nasher, 28, had been on the run since March when he was allegedly involved in a shooting spree, which killed Ben Togiai - originallyfrom South Auckland.
Togiai, 33, a Samoan-Kiwi, was shot dead outside a boxing event at Melbourne Pavilion, in Kensington, about 10pm on March 1.
The husband and father of a three-year-old daughter, was shot in the side of the chest and died at the scene.
Two other men were also taken to hospital with gunshot wounds.
Ben Togiai left behind a three-year-old-daughter Alyssa. Photo / Facebook
Togiai's alleged killers Abdullah El Nasher, 27, and Mikhael Myko, 25, were arrested in Sydney a week later.
Video footage of the arrest showed that El Nasher jumped from the seventh floor balcony of an apartment block. It is believed he suffered two broken ribs and a punctured lung.
An unidentified 26-year-old man was also charged in May.
However, a nationwide manhunt was launched for Ali El Nasher, 28 - but it is reported he handed himself into police last Tuesday.
He has since been charged with nine offences including; attempted murder, assault, affray and committing an indictable offence on bail.
Abdullah El Nasher, 27, Ali El Nasher, 28, and Mikhael Myko, 25. Photo / Supplied
His younger brother Abdullah El Nasher was earlier charged with one count of murder, while Mikhael Myko was charged with one charge each of attempted murder and intentionally causing serious injury.
All three alleged offenders are due to return to court in September.
Togiai had gone to the boxing event with colleagues from the construction industry.
His family earlier said he was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"He went out for a good night with work colleagues and was shot because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time," First cousin Geraldine Faaeteete told the Herald.
Togiai grew up in Otahuhu and went to Fairburn Primary and Otahuhu Intermediate schools.
Ben Togiai, a Samoan-Kiwi, was brought up in South Auckland. Photo / Facebook
He moved to Melbourne as a young teenager, and more recently lived in Craigieburn.
After his death, wife Shae Mccoullough said she'd give anything to bring him back.
