In an incident livestreamed on Facebook, an aspiring corporator, allegedly shot at his opponent and then died by suicide at I C Colony in Dahisar on Thursday evening. The deceased are Mauris Noronha, a local resident of I C Colony who moved to Mumbai from Los Angeles a few years ago, and Abhishek Ghosalkar, a former corporator from Ward number 1 of BMC and also a resident of I C Colony. Both were rushed to Karuna Hospital in Borivli where they were declared dead. Ghosalkar’s father Vinod Ghosalkar is an ex-MLA belonging to Shiv Sena (UBT).

Mauris Noronha and Abhishek Ghosalkar, on a Facebook Live event minutes before the shooting