Dream that turned deadly in Motor City

By Nick Miller, Chris Johnston, Benjamin Preiss
Updated November 9 2012 - 9:14pm, first published May 20 2011 - 3:15pm
Crime scene ... the apartment block in Detroit that Greg McNicol had  bought and was renovating on the day he was shot.
Crime scene ... the apartment block in Detroit that Greg McNicol had bought and was renovating on the day he was shot.

The life and death of Greg McNicol is a story spread far and wide, beginning among the swimming pools and tennis courts of his sporty 1970s childhood at Mount Eliza, south-east of Melbourne, then ending horribly two weeks ago in the violent streets of Detroit, a man killed in cold blood while trying to make a difference.