{"id":114681,"date":"2025-08-27T21:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114681\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:35:12","slug":"7news-breaking-news-live-blog-teen-fatally-stabbed-at-bus-stop-tributes-for-fallen-cops-as-manhunt-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114681\/","title":{"rendered":"7NEWS breaking news live blog: Teen fatally stabbed at bus stop, tributes for fallen cops as manhunt continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A host of Melbourne landmarks were lit up blue overnight to remember the two police officers killed in the line of duty on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson, 59, and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart, 35, <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/porepunkah-shooting-sovereign-citizen-dezi-freeman-remains-on-the-run-and-heavily-armed-after-allegedly-killing-two-cops-and-injuring-a-third-c-19816856\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">were allegedly gunned down by Dezi Freeman, 56,<\/a> while executing a search warrant at his Porepunkah property, in northeast Victoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A third police officer was rushed to hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery for serious injuries to his lower body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Melbourne Town Hall, National Gallery of Victoria and Flinders Street Station were among several buildings lit up blue on Wednesday night to honour the fallen heroes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan said Thompson and De Waart served the state with bravery and honour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cOn behalf of all Victorians I\u2019d like to convey our deepest sympathies to their families, friends and colleagues, and the entire Victoria Police family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A major manhunt has entered its third day for Freeman, who fled his property after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">It\u2019s believed he is in possesion of an arsenal of weapons and is very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Locals have been urged to stay inside if possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI can assure everyone that we are pouring every resource into this search for this person,\u201d Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe have a large team investigating this crime and we have a large team that are absolutely focused on finding this suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cAll of our specialist resources are there to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe hunt will continue until we find him. \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Freeman was last seen wearing khaki tracksuit pants, a dark green rain jacket, brown Blundstone boots and reading glasses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/eb70bbff7e30e0a088353f408bc388c51540db16.jpg\" alt=\"National Gallery of Victoria.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>National Gallery of Victoria. Credit: 7NEWS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/10184388841f0d797baf55e2ef5608a65df6cddf.jpg\" alt=\"Flinders Street Station.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Flinders Street Station. Credit: 7NEWS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ff6ea5884aa67c419ffb1cc21438b2b3e6a37974.jpg\" alt=\"Melbourne Town Hall.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Melbourne Town Hall. Credit: 7NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Play Video<\/p>\n<p>Dezi Freeman has evaded police for another night, as Porepunkah residents stay on high alert.<\/p>\n<p>Dezi Freeman has evaded police for another night, as Porepunkah residents stay on high alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A host of Melbourne landmarks were lit up blue overnight to remember the two police officers killed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25011,4,450,451,3,25012,25013,25014,452,453,25015,140],"class_list":["post-114681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-adelaide","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nsw-news","tag-queensland-news","tag-sa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vic-news","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}