\u201cAt this time police are treating it as a targeted attack and the investigation remains ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Insiders say it was a suspected youth gang attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n Victorian Leader of the Opposition Brad Battin said the horrific attack was an example of how more needed to be done to combat violent crime.<\/p>\n \u201cLast night we saw the tragic outcome of the crime crisis in Victoria,\u201d he told the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n \u201cToo many Victorians have been victims of crime. Last night, two more Victorians were tragically added to that tally.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we talk about the crime crisis, we can never lose sight of its human cost. These are not just statistics, they represent lives lost, families shattered, and communities forever changed.\u201d<\/p>\n Sam Rae, Aged Care Minister whose division of Hawke includes Cobblebank, told Sky News\u2019 Sunday Agenda: \u201cThis has been a harrowing night for my community, these are incredibly distressing reports that have emerged.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seemingly lost two children overnight.<\/p>\n \u201cMy job at this point is to support those families, support my community and to support the police to do their job in ensuring that we get justice for this heinous crime.\u201d<\/p>\n Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAt this time police are treating it as a targeted attack and the investigation remains ongoing.\u201d Insiders say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,89,1558,8843,1061,690,1874,1328,305,42,78,123,8842,43,6507,8841,1458,40,38,41,39,1237,8844,3807,1079],"class_list":["post-6914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-attack","tag-been","tag-believed","tag-children","tag-dead","tag-found","tag-gang","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-melbourne","tag-melbournes","tag-news","tag-overnight","tag-suspected","tag-targeted","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-victims","tag-west","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}