{"id":49431,"date":"2025-08-27T03:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=49431"},"modified":"2025-08-27T03:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:05:02","slug":"australia-police-shooting-suspect-named-as-manhunt-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=49431","title":{"rendered":"Australia police shooting suspect named as manhunt continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian police are continuing a massive search for a heavily armed man suspected of shooting and killing two officers in a rural town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten police officers were fired upon on Tuesday after travelling to the property in Porepunkah &#8211; about 300km (186 miles) north-east of Melbourne &#8211; to execute a warrant for alleged sexual offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost 24 hours later, police have named the suspect as local man Dezi Freeman, 56, and confirmed he is &#8220;still at large&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have deployed officers, a helicopter and armoured vehicles to the area and warned locals to stay inside until Mr Freeman is caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are pouring every resource into the search,&#8221; Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police Mike Bush said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Australian police are continuing a massive search for a heavily armed man suspected of shooting and killing two officers in a rural town. Ten police officers were fired upon on Tuesday after travelling to the property in Porepunkah &#8211; about 300km (186 miles) north-east of Melbourne &#8211; to execute a warrant for alleged sexual offences. Almost 24 hours later, police have named the suspect as local man Dezi Freeman, 56, and confirmed he is &#8220;still at large&#8221;. Police have deployed officers, a helicopter and armoured vehicles to the area and warned locals to stay inside until Mr Freeman is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49433,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49431\/revisions\/49433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}