Follow-Up: 51-Year-Old Charged With Murder Over Melbourne Rider Feng Jianming's Death as Community Fundraiser Nears A$390,000
MELBOURNE — Victoria Police said on Monday, November 9 local time, that a 51-year-old man from Footscray has been charged with one count of murder and one count of intentionally causing serious injury over the November 6 knife attack in central Melbourne in which Chinese food-delivery rider Feng Jianming was killed and another rider, aged 34, was injured. The man had been arrested on the morning of November 7; the charges were formally laid on Monday, and the investigation is continuing.
As GSM reported earlier, at about 8 p.m. on November 6 Feng and another rider confronted a man who was tampering with their bicycles on Frederick Way near the Queen Victoria Market, and were attacked with a knife; Feng died at the scene. Feng, 47, from Shaanxi Province in China, came to Australia around 2017 and had delivered food for nearly nine years, sending most of his earnings home to support his wife, two children and the couple's elderly parents.
Community support has continued to build. A GoFundMe fundraiser for Feng's family, organised by the Melbourne Chinatown Business Association, had raised almost A$390,000 by Monday morning, to cover the family's emergency travel and accommodation, funeral arrangements and ongoing support. HungryPanda, the platform Feng worked for, has said it is assisting the family with visa arrangements, funeral expenses and insurance. Hundreds of community members had earlier held a candlelight vigil for Feng outside the State Library of Victoria. (Source: Victoria Police)
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Source: Victoria Police
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