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Dezi Freeman was believed to be on the run with his wife and children after two police officers were shot dead in Porepunkah in rural Victoria yesterday. However, police have confirmed they arrived at a police station yesterday evening.
The ambush that killed two Victoria Police officers and wounded a third in Victoria’s alpine region highlights the deadly reach of the “sovereign citizen” movement, a fringe ideology that refuses to recognise Australia’s laws and is increasingly turning violent.
A massive search continues for a Porepunkah man who allegedly shot and killed two police officers at his property in rural Victoria. Follow live.
Porepunkah Primary School will reopen tomorrow after being closed as police hunt the alleged gunman. Police have admitted Freeman, who lives on the semi-rural property in Porepunkah where the shooting took place, knows the area "better than us".
Slain Victoria Police detective Neal Thompson, who was killed in action in Porepunkah on Tuesday, has been remembered as “a good country cop” who loved the bush.