{"id":703718,"date":"2026-04-04T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/703718\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:25:15","slug":"two-arrested-as-part-of-police-investigation-into-fugitive-dezi-freeman-fatally-shot-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/703718\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested as part of police investigation into fugitive Dezi Freeman fatally shot on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two people have been arrested as part of a police investigation into the movements of fugitive Dezi Freeman, who was shot dead by police last Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Freeman had been on the run since August last year after fatally shooting two police officers while they attempted to carry out a warrant at his Porepunkah property in north-east Victoria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The ordeal came to an end after a three-hour stand-off with police at a property in Thologolong, more than 150 kilometres from Freeman&#8217;s home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Monday, officers surrounded a shipping container and Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush had earlier said Freeman was &#8220;given every opportunity to resolve [the situation] peacefully&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Freeman eventually emerged from the container wrapped in a blanket and cradling a gun, which detectives later confirmed was a firearm taken from one of the slain officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The ABC understands up to eight officers from Victoria Police&#8217;s Special Operations Group fired their weapons towards Freeman.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An aerial view of a cluster of buildings and vehicles on a rural property.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/860b2b81352e902690847278cdc17bcc.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\">The property in Thologolong where police killed Dezi Freeman. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Saturday, Victoria Police confirmed detectives from Taskforce Summit had arrested a man and a woman as part of their ongoing investigation into the movement of Freeman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The man and woman were arrested about 7am on 4 April at two properties in north-east Victoria,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The investigation remains ongoing and, as such, we are not in a position to provide further details at this immediate time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police confirmed the pair were associates of Freeman and were not members of his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They will be interviewed by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart-Hottart were killed by Freeman, and a third officer was injured before he disappeared into dense bushland, sparking Australia&#8217;s largest-ever tactical police operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A $1 million reward was offered by police for any information leading to the arrest of Freeman, but it is not known whether that has been claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">As part of their investigation, detectives were looking into how Freeman managed to evade officers and whether he had help from anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested as part of a police investigation into the movements of fugitive Dezi Freeman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":327883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,101502,54304,56183,50,5488,293708],"class_list":["post-703718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-dezi-freeman","tag-freeman","tag-fugitive","tag-news","tag-police-shooting","tag-two-arrested-over-dezi-freeman-movements"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116345014275121338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703718","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=703718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}