Man shot dead by police officer in Melbourne’s outer east

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Police say a man, who was shot dead in Melbourne’s outer east last night, was tasered three times before officers fired. A woman, who was being attacked by the man, remains in a critical condition in hospital.

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00:00The 48-year-old woman who was at the address behind me last night remains

00:05fighting for her life in a critical condition in hospital. Police were called

00:10to this property at Yarra Junction about half past five last night when they

00:14heard screaming and yelling coming from the bedrooms. Now inside they found a

00:18woman who was being strangled by her younger brother. Police say he'd used a

00:22samurai sword to partially sever her arm. When they directed him to stop he was

00:27then tasered. Police made more requests but when he refused to cooperate the 45

00:32year-old was shot and died at the scene. His sister was flown to hospital in a

00:38critical condition and that's where she remains today. We've spoken to neighbours

00:43who are nearby and they shed some light on how the situation unfolded last night.

00:47Well we knew what had happened last night. The grapevine around the country up here

00:53moves pretty quickly so we knew something major had happened with a helicopter and

00:56and that turning up and we had a fair idea of what had gone on but nothing was

01:03out of the unusual. There was just a big police presence and ambulance presence and

01:07a helicopter and that was it. A quiet family so the mum's lovely bump into her

01:14occasionally don't often see the kids sometimes you know just wandering out to

01:21get the groceries you'll see them but they kept to themselves she didn't often see

01:25them around. Forensics teams have visited the site this morning and

01:29Professional Standards Command will oversee the police investigation which is

01:33standard practice whenever there is a fatal police shooting.

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