{"id":132210,"date":"2025-09-10T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132210\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:13:08","slug":"images-reveal-moments-before-dezi-freeman-allegedly-opened-fire-on-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132210\/","title":{"rendered":"Images reveal moments before Dezi Freeman allegedly opened fire on police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail Australia reported Freeman asked officers not to enter his bus, and that his frame of mind deteriorated as police told him what the warrant was for and asked that he come out and talk to them.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly called the allegations \u201cbull&#8212;-\u201d and branded the police \u201cNazis\u201d and \u201cpsychopaths\u201d, accusing them of trespassing and committing many crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail reports that Thompson, who was tearfully farewelled at a funeral on Monday, opened a bus window and clambered in feet first.<\/p>\n<p>It was then that two gunshots rang out, the officers ran for cover and the video ended.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Superintendent Jason Kelly said the emergence of the video was \u201cdistressing and disappointing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Another of the stills.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70ea3182f9235a6f5950f2a55a2717ec8964b201.jpeg\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another of the stills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat footage is not Victoria Police footage; it is not body-worn camera footage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can only imagine the impact that will have on the family of Neal and Vadim and the colleagues who were present and the broader [members of] Victoria Police and law enforcement across Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The search for the alleged gunman went into its 16th day on Wednesday, and police said arresting Freeman remained their highest priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have conducted significant searches throughout the community, particularly in the bushlands here in Porepunkah,\u201d Superintendent Craig Darlow said. \u201cWe\u2019ve searched caves, we\u2019ve searched mineshaft huts, and we\u2019ll continue to do that over the coming weeks, need be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday police announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the fugitive\u2019s arrest, which has resulted in more than 200 pieces of information being submitted to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Sergeant Lisa Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/victoria\/thousands-farewell-police-officer-who-tackled-life-to-the-fullest-20250908-p5mtdt.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">told more than 3000 mourners<\/a> at the Victoria Police Academy in Glen Waverley that her partner, Thompson, had shown her and his step-children \u201chow brilliant life is, if you have the courage to try\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe taught me how to love without fear and how to be brave when I\u2019m scared. I am so grateful you did because I am scared. I don\u2019t want to live this life without you, and I don\u2019t want to finish our dreams on my own,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5msqq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Waart-Hottart was also farewelled<\/a> in the same chapel, filled with family, friends, the Victorian premier and the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>His mother, Carolina de Waart, his father, Alain Hottart, and brother Sacha de Waart-Hottart flew from Belgium, bringing their grief and their memories.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Sacha reached back to childhood to explain the love and care he knew as the essence of Vadim. \u201cMy brother\u2019s always been my hero, my protector,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman fled the shooting scene with weapons taken from the slain officers and ran into remote bushland nearby.<\/p>\n<p>More than 400 police and the Australian Defence Force personnel are now involved in the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Mail Australia reported Freeman asked officers not to enter his bus, and that his frame of mind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-132210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}