What we know

About this morning

·         At 2.20am on Saturday morning, someone fired several shots into an upstairs window of Stephen Dank's home on Gillespie Avenue, Ascot Vale

·         Dank, 52, grazed his forehead during the incident, but otherwise escaped unharmed

About Stephen Dank

·         Dank was working as a sport scientist the Cronulla Sharks in 2011 when he administered to several players banned growth hormone-releasing peptides, CJC-1295 and GHRP-6

·         This year the NSW Supreme Court found he showed "reckless indifference" to the life of promising young NRL player Jon Mannah, who died in 2013 after a recurrence of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. It found Dank provided Mannah with dangerous peptides that may have accelerated his death.

·         Essendon senior coach James Hird hired Dank as a sport scientist to create the Bombers' disastrous 2012 supplements program

·         34 Essendon players from that year, many of whom had since left the club or retired, were at the start of 2016 given season-long bans from football for taking banned peptide Thymosin beta-4.

·         Dank appeared in court earlier this year, being sued by a subsidiary of the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank for debts and legal costs of more than $90,000 for a loan he took out to invest in an agribusiness 'ponzi scheme' nearly a decade ago

·         Dank does not have medical qualifications, but he continues to practise at an anti-aging clinic in Fairfield, Sydney

What we don't know

This is a whodunnit with seemingly any number of suspects

·         Ex-footballer and ex-Adelaide coach tuned media identity Graham Cornes says Dank believes the attack was an attempt to silence him – he was due to speak at a club lunch in Bendigo on Saturday

·         But sources have told Fairfax Media Dank has enemies from within Melbourne's underworld

·         Police are checking claims he has owes money to several different Victorian businesses