{"id":91579,"date":"2026-09-09T04:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/91579\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T04:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:29:29","slug":"police-arrest-peter-oryan-over-alleged-axe-attack-on-family-members-in-victorias-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/91579\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest Peter O’Ryan over alleged axe attack on family members in Victoria’s east"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have arrested a Victorian man who had been on the run since Saturday after allegedly attacking family members with an axe.<\/p>\n

Police allege Peter O’Ryan, 48, assaulted his brother, Paul O’Ryan, father, Keith O’Ryan, and mother, Janine O’Ryan, with the weapon before fleeing their home in Tyers on foot.<\/p>\n

Mr O’Ryan was arrested on Tuesday night after officers were called to reports of a person acting suspiciously near the Tyers-Walhalla Road just before 9pm.<\/p>\n

He will be interviewed in relation to the attack over the weekend.<\/p>\n

His family remain in the Alfred Hospital where his father is in a critical but stable condition, while his brother and mother are in serious but stable conditions.<\/p>\n

Detective Senior Sergeant Rod Findlay said police believed Mr O’Ryan had been living in bushland.<\/p>\n

“He was located near the lookout at Tyers in the area which we’ve been concentrating our search on,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a really good result.”\"Detective<\/p>\n

Rod Findlay thanked the public for their help in finding Peter O’Ryan. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Mr O’Ryan was taken to Morwell police station to be interviewed.<\/p>\n

“We went hard at this,” Senior Sergeant Findlay said.<\/p>\n

“I just want to thank the public, we wouldn’t have been as successful [without the public’s help].<\/p>\n

“It was a call from a passer-by who’d seen the media \u2026 and made the decision to give us a call, which led to the arrest, and we’ve had an outpouring of support from the public. It’s been quite overwhelming.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested a Victorian man who had been on the run since Saturday after allegedly attacking family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3340,1112,22,21,10373,153214,1047,153194],"class_list":["post-91579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arrest","tag-attack","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-axe","tag-peter-oryan","tag-police","tag-tyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91579","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=91579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}