{"id":573840,"date":"2026-03-30T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573840\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:04:09","slug":"porepunkah-police-shooting-fugitive-shot-dead-after-seven-months-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573840\/","title":{"rendered":"Porepunkah police shooting fugitive shot dead after seven months on the run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Commissioner Mike Bush has confirmed the weapon found next to Dezi Freeman\u2019s body was the service pistol of one of the slain Porepunkah officers.<\/p>\n<p>Bush held another press conference outside Wodonga police station about 7pm and told reporters the investigation was still in its early stages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike Bush addressing media at the property where Freeman was killed earlier on Monday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/11d2285d15f174ae7aad53266993b6b27834933b.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Mike Bush addressing media at the property where Freeman was killed earlier on Monday.Justin McManus<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn hour ago, I could not confirm that a weapon found next to the deceased was a police firearm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can now confirm that it is a police firearm, and we believe it was taken from one of our murdered officers on the 26th of August.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what type of weapon it was, Bush confirmed: \u201cIt was a service pistol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it was still to be confirmed if Freeman had fired before he was shot by police, but backed the actions of officers, who he said had a gun pointed at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chief Commissioner Mike Bush has confirmed the weapon found next to Dezi Freeman\u2019s body was the service pistol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-573840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573840","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=573840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}