RESERVOIR, VIC. — A 32-year-old Reservoir man, Mohamud Ali, who allegedly stabbed a paramedic on Broadway, is an alleged ice user.
An employee of a Reservoir bottleshop stated that: “Yeah, I know him. I’ve had him come in the store, sometimes going off his nut at me and threatening me, but at other times he has been quite friendly, even once intervening when another drunk customer attempted to steal booze.”
“One day, I was having lunch with my Dad at ‘Little Reservoir’, a day after I refused him service. He walked up to my father and me and said that he ‘would kill us both and put our heads on a pike’,” the liquor store employee told VicNews this afternoon.
The liquor store employee suggested that he often failed to take prescribed medications for unknown mental illness(es), and “I’ve seen him buying ice out the front of our shop. I think he’s replacing his prescribed medication with ice.
“He sometimes calls himself Emmanuel, not Mohamud.
“I know he’s been arrested in the past, as he tried to stab someone, leaving my store with alcohol, and the police came and arrested him. That was about two years ago, I think,” the liquor store employee said.
A security guard who works at the shopping centre where the liquor store is located confirmed that: “Yes, we’ve had to remove him and call police on several occasions.”
Victoria Police would not confirm nor deny the new allegations, nor confirm or deny previous interactions with the alleged offender.
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