Another huge part of my heart died on Tuesday, Daniela Pandolfino, the sister of murder victim Chris Pandolfino said in a touching tribute on Friday. 

Chris Pandolfino and his partner Ivor Maciejowski were shot dead inside their home in Locker Street at around 10.30pm on Tuesday.   

In a Facebook post on Friday, Daniela Pandolfino described this tragedy as a senseless, cruel and inexplicable act. 

She wrote that her brother played a huge role in her life and was a big part of her upbringing as “he was her best friend, her mentor, her saviour, entertainer and her overgrown child.” 

“He adored me like few brothers adored their sister. Our bond was not the normal sibling bond, it was so much more,” the post said. 

She explained her brother’s character as being larger than life and lived only by his rules, not a care in the world for social norms or social etiquette. 

Pandolfino described her brother as an intelligent, knowledgeable, generous and eloquent man. 

“He sang his huge, generous heart out to the opera that he loved so much. And that is how he lived and ended his life, like one of the best operas ever written,” she said.

In a crime conference on Wednesday, the police appealed for information that could lead officers to trace three suspects believed to have committed the murder.