Australian police said on Monday that they shot dead a fugitive gunman wanted for killing two officers, ending a seven-month manhunt for one of the country’s most-wanted criminals.
Desmond Freeman fled into dense bushland in August last year after shooting and killing two police officers on a rural property in Victoria state.
Police tracked Freeman to a caravan parked on a “very remote” property in rural Victoria, Police Commissioner Mike Bush said, shooting him after he refused pleas to surrender.
“Everything I know at this point tells me that this shooting was justified,” Bush told reporters. “There was a stand-off. There was an opportunity for him to surrender peacefully, which he did not.”
The state coroner would now confirm the identity of the body and cause of death, he added.
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