The young woman shot dead in a mysterious late-night home invasion had posted on social media just hours earlier, as new details of her battle with addiction emerge.
Charlyze Hayter, 19, died when she and an unknown man armed with a rifle broke into the home of Tradie Jackson Gilmour, 29, in Rye, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, in the early hours of Monday.
Hayter is understood to have hit the shopkeeper with a baton and demanded he hand over his wallet and other personal belongings while he rummaged through his drawers. But he shot her before being shot by the second unknown intruder, who then fled and continues to flee.
Gilmour and Hayter were treated by paramedics, but both died at the scene.
In her latest Instagram post uploaded on Sunday, Hayter shared a mirror selfie in black lingerie showing off her prominent tattoos while smoking.
The post includes a short video of Ms Hayter pushing her hair back and smoking a cigarette.
A third image in the post shows a corner of a room with a whiteboard mounted on a door covered in scribbled graffiti, while the walls were covered in permanent marker.
The post has since been flooded with tributes from friends.
Charlyze Hayter (pictured) died when she and an unknown man armed with a rifle broke into Tradie Jackson Gilmour’s home in Rye.
A final clip filmed by Charlyze Hayter shows her posing for the camera while smoking a cigarette.
The Instagram account created just a few weeks earlier is full of Hayter’s selfies.
“My old account was permanently disabled, whoops,” his bio said.
Ms. Hayter was once a talented trapeze artist who performed circus-style stunts.
The teenager showed off her skills on a separate Instagram account, which has not been updated since December 2020.
Many clips show her hanging upside down from a hoop high in the air.
“The pinnacle of my circus experiences in 2019,” Hayter captioned a video.
‘At the Australian Circus Festival I had the best time of my life.
“I want to thank everyone who made this possible.”
The teenager was a talented trapeze artist who loved showing off her skills on social media.
Charlyze Hayter regularly participated in a nationwide circus festival when she was younger.
The Australian Circus Festival bills itself as the “International Circus Olympics” and is held in Brisbane each year.
However, outside of sport, Ms Hayter appears to have had a troubled life battling addiction.
A lengthy Facebook post from her mother in 2021 celebrated her daughter’s 16th birthday, but she lamented not having the “right words to express how amazing I think you are to keep trying every day to overcome your personal challenges.”
“It breaks my heart to see you struggle with what’s going on in your head sometimes. I would do anything to make things easier for you,” her mother wrote.
“But from life’s difficulties we grow and learn and that shapes our outcome.”
The post concludes: ‘I wouldn’t change a bit about you. I am immensely proud of you and the sensitive, caring and empathetic person. loving young adult you are becoming, you make my heart swell.”
Tradie Jackson ‘Jack’ Gilmour, 29, died when armed robbers broke into her home
Jackson Gilmour woke up when Charlyze Hayter and an unknown man armed with a rifle allegedly broke into the property shortly after 4 a.m.
The mother shared other posts urging Charlyze to be “kinder to herself” and tagged her in a Facebook ad for an “Addiction Kickboxing Muay Thai” class held on the Mornington Peninsula.
Police investigating Monday’s deadly home invasion believe Gilmour knew Hayter and the other unknown man and that it was a “targeted attack.”
Mr Gilmour, who was affectionately known as Jack to his friends, had lived in the area for more than 10 years.
Her housemate survived the home invasion and called the police.
It is understood he hid in the bathroom after waking up to the sound of the man and woman entering the house.
Gilmour had reportedly isolated himself from his former colleagues in the months before his death for fear that he had joined a “bad crowd”.
An old friend of Gilmour told Daily Mail Australia he was still shocked by the death of the carpenter and plumber who grew up in the region.
“(His mother) doesn’t know,” said an anonymous friend.
“She believes he simply defended himself in a domestic violence situation.”
Detectives could be seen scouring the area for evidence as they worked the crime scene.
The friend said it would be news to him if Gilmour had access to a firearm.
“I didn’t know he had a damn gun, that’s for sure,” he said.
His friend claimed Mr Gilmour looked “different” the last time he saw him alive.
I saw him a month or two ago. He was no longer the same,’ he said. “You don’t want to associate yourself with that stuff.”