A jury has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the murder case against a man who shot two brothers at a Melbourne tyre shop.
Ahmad El-Chakik is charged with murdering Edmund Shabani and trying to murder his brother, Elvis, at Ravenhall's Westworld Wheels and Tyres in October 2017.
El-Chakik says he shot the men in self-defence, claiming they were "Albanian mafia" and trying to kill him.
A Supreme Court jury, the first since the COVID-19 pandemic began, was discharged on Friday after failing to reach a verdict.
A new trial is slated for January.
The court was previously told El-Chakik drove to a police station after the shooting.
"I was assaulted in my car today. I was fighting for life," he told police in a prepared statement.
"I acted in self-defence to get those people away from me.
"I come to police today feeling terrible because I want to cooperate. I am totally innocent of the allegation."
It wasn't disputed El-Chakik drove to the tyre shot with a gun, shot the men and then handed himself in to police.
CCTV footage was played on Wednesday showing him waving the brothers over to his car at the shop.
The trio had an animated discussion before El-Chakik struck Edmund in the face, prosecutor Mark Rochford QC previously told the jury.
Edmund punched El-Chakik back and got into his car, and died after being shot in the chest and abdomen.
Elvis was shot in the legs but survived.
Mr Rochford said El-Chakik told police he knew the men, as they and his own brothers had been involved in a violent incident years prior.
El-Chakik said the Shabani brothers had grabbed the gun off him and he shot them after getting it back.
Acting for El-Chakik, Glenn Casement said the Shabani brothers had a history of violence.
"They run the western suburbs, they are the Albanian mafia," he said.
"Those men were attacking him inside his own vehicle and trying to drag him out.
"My client fired a weapon in self-defence."
