‘Sovereign citizen’ Dezi Freeman, 56, remains on the run after he allegedly shot and killed two police officers and wounded a third with a home-made shotgun at a property near the small north-east Victorian town of Porepunkah on Tuesday morning.
A 59-year-old detective and a 35-year-old senior constable both died in the horrific incident, which came after 10 officers arrived at the property to serve a warrant.
Freeman allegedly took the dead officers’ guns and a police radio to listen to officers’ movements and then fled deep into alpine wilderness, about 300km northeast of Melbourne.
The search for Freeman involves more than 100 police officers, including some from NSW.
There were some initial reports Freeman may have taken his wife and two children hostage, however police said he fled alone and that the trio attended a local police station on Tuesday night.