A man has been charged with murder after the stabbing death of a fisherman on Frankston pier on Saturday morning.
Officers were called to the popular swimming spot following reports of an assault halfway down the pier just after 6am.
Police said the 45-year-old man from Cranbourne North was critically injured when officers arrived and died at the scene.
Shortly after, officers arrested a 36-year-old man on the nearby foreshore. The man, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder.
A witness told Nine News that the deceased man was a fisherman.
The pier and foreshore, about 40 kilometres south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, were cordoned off on Saturday while detectives from the homicide squad investigated the crime scene.
Investigators on Frankston pier on Saturday after a man was stabbed and died.Credit: Nine
Fisherman Francisco Quiroz, who fishes at the pier almost daily, said the Frankston foreshore could be unsafe for visitors at night.
“A lot of drugs, a lot of people drunk and all that … and looking for trouble,” Quiroz told Nine News.
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