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After a months-long manhunt, Victoria Police fatally shot Dezi Freeman, a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen who killed two officers and fled into rural Victoria. Hundreds of officers and aircraft hunted Freeman until a three-hour standoff at a north-eastern Victoria property ended with his death; authorities say the shooting was justified while an investigation proceeds and the families of the slain officers were notified.
Victoria police shot and killed fugitive Dezi Freeman after a seven-month manhunt over the Porepunkah shootings that killed two officers; Freeman (also known as Desmond Filby) was killed following a prolonged standoff at a remote rural property near Walwa, with police saying the incident appears justified and the identity is being formally confirmed. The operation, described as the largest policing effort in Victoria, involved multiple agencies and ongoing inquiries into possible accomplices.
A manhunt is ongoing in Porepunkah, Australia, after a gunman shot and killed two police officers and injured a third during a search warrant execution; the suspect remains at large, and the incident has raised concerns about rural police safety and extremism.