A gunman is on the run after opening fire in a popular park on Sunday afternoon, leaving a man in his 20s fighting for life in hospital.

The shooting occurred just before 4pm in a park opposite Broadmeadows Shopping Centre, about 18km from the Melbourne CBD, after two men were seen arguing in the car park at Coles Broadmeadows just minutes earlier.

Detectives arrived on scene to piece together what happened in the vital moments before the incident that has left the victim in a critical condition at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

A key witness who watched the horror unfold described the terrifying moments when the victim was shot twice in broad daylight.

“It looked like they were about to fight, but then he pulled out, like, a weapon, and then, yeah, I heard the gunshot,” Tahir Mollah

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