A Coburg North man has been charged over the daylight shooting at a tattoo parlour in Glenroy on Tuesday.
A 36-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday night and charged with reckless conduct endangering life, prohibited use of a firearm, prohibited possession of a firearm and other related offences.
The charges also relate to a shooting on January 20 where a man was shot at a business in Coburg, police said.
He faced the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.
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The tattoo shop on Wheatsheaf Road in Melbourne's north was peppered with bullets at 11.40am on Tuesday.
No one was injured.
Current company records show a man who was the victim of a shooting last year was connected to the shop, called Ink Bound.
Nabil Maghnie, 40, is the director of the company that owns Ink Bound, but told Fairfax Media through his lawyer on Wednesday that he no longer has an involvement with the shop.
Mr Maghnie was shot in his head and chest through the windscreen of a car last September.
He miraculously drove himself to hospital and survived. No one has yet been charged with that crime.
Detectives were investigating whether Tuesday's drive-by was connected with the shooting of Omar Tiba in the Campbellfield Plaza carpark on January 17.
A masked gunman got out of a car and shot the 27-year-old three times in the leg and groin.