{"id":36430,"date":"2025-07-03T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36430\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:24:10","slug":"man-shot-dead-by-police-during-siege-in-daisy-hill-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36430\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead by police during siege in Daisy Hill, Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has died after being shot by police during an exchange of gunfire in the tiny Victorian town of Daisy Hill in the Central Goldfields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police were called to Menzies Drive to investigate a report that a man had fired a gun just before 3pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The officers said they attempted to engage with the man, who remained armed, before he staged a siege that lasted several hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Specialist units including Critical Incident Response Team, Special Operations Group, and Dog Squad were called in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said about 10pm, the man fired shots towards police who returned fire, striking the man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Several police cars are parked on the grass beside a fence on a country road at night.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/b2e426cae91b8b5bd8a1a06308706099\" 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 were called to reports the man had discharged a firearm at the Daisy Hill property. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The yet-to-be-formally identified gunman died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">No-one else was physically injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Homicide Squad detectives will now investigate along with Professional Standards Command, in accordance with standard procedure for a fatal police shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after being shot by police during an exchange of gunfire in the tiny Victorian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,29768,29769,50,5488,29770,27936,8344],"class_list":{"0":"post-36430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-gunman","10":"tag-homicide-squad","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-police-shooting","13":"tag-professional-standards-command","14":"tag-siege","15":"tag-victoria-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114791649363031799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}