{"id":781,"date":"2026-04-28T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:45:09","slug":"police-investigate-suspected-drive-by-shooting-firebombing-in-melbournes-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/781\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate suspected drive-by shooting, firebombing in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police opened fire on a vehicle and are investigating a drive-by shooting after multiple incidents across Melbourne&#8217;s south-east overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said officers fired on a vehicle during a pursuit of a stolen car in Narre Warren South after 6pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They fired the shot when the officers left their car to walk towards the stolen vehicle and a second car allegedly drove towards them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Both vehicles were then driven off from the scene and another was abandoned. No arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Later, police received reports of a suspected drive-by shooting outside the Emerson Hotel on Commercial Road in South Yarra shortly before 2am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police car on the middle of a street.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/10248b17b87786adf0a6d0f1b81f63a1.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police cordoned off sections of Commerical Road and Chapel Street overnight. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said several shots were fired towards the venue before the vehicle drove off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Emerson Hotel was set alight earlier in the month in a suspected arson attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A few hours after the shooting, a bar around the corner on Chapel Street in Prahran was suspected to have been firebombed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the bar was set alight shortly before 5am and a man sustained smoke inhalation after unsuccessfully trying to extinguish the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said there were reports a man was seen setting fire to the bar before fleeing the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The building sustained significant damage, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police talk to someone next to a car and write down notes on a clipboard.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bac99c68e9143127869e68629174f178.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police outside the venue on Chapel Street that was set alight. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a separate incident, a 37-year-old man was arrested after an alleged violent attack on a tram in South Melbourne on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said a man and woman were approached by the man behaving erratically on a tram near the intersection of St Kilda Road and Coventry Street shortly before 7pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was allegedly carrying a small steak knife and a hammer and is said to have hit the victims a number of times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man and woman, both in their 40s, were able to hold the alleged attacker until police arrived, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The victims were taken to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police opened fire on a vehicle and are investigating a drive-by shooting after multiple incidents across Melbourne&#8217;s south-east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1558,1560,260,1047,1559],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-drive-bys","tag-firebombing","tag-melbourne","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}