SIX years after a 22-year-old man was fatally assaulted outside Melbourne's Queens Bridge Hotel nightclub, police believe they may have had a break in the case.
Shannon McCormack died following an assault on Sunday May 27, 2007 when he was knocked to the ground during an altercation with three men outside QBH.
Homicide Squad detectives on Tuesday said they had identified a man who they believed may be able to assist them with the investigation.
Original CCTV footage shows a man, possibly in his 20s, who was in the area at the time of the assault.
He is described as being between 165-175cm tall, thin to medium build with light brown/blonde spiky hair.
He was believed to be wearing a light purple or blue T-shirt and light blue jeans on the night of the incident.
Police have called on the man, or anybody who knows him, to contact investigators.
Homicide Squad Detective Inspector John Potter said somebody knows what happened to Shannon McCormack.
"No one should go out for a good time with friends and never make it home," Det Insp Potter said.
Mr McCormack died after a single punch knocked him to the footpath.
Police say he had left QBH with his friends and was walking towards the city along Queens Bridge Street, Southbank, when he and his friends became involved in an altercation about 4am.
When Shannon tried to separate one of his friends and one of the men from the other group, he was punched by another man and fell to the footpath.
He underwent several operations for a serious head injury, but did not regain consciousness and died on Sunday, June 3, in 2007.
Despite an extensive police investigation, continued appeal to the public and a $100,000 reward, the case remains unsolved.
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