Man ‘played dead’ to survive shooting
A MELBOURNE grandfather who was out cycling has survived being gunned down by a random shooter by playing dead.
Crime
Man ‘shot in the back by masked men’
A WITNESS who saw a drive-by shooting outside an Airport West gym says the victim was shot in the back by masked men who fled the scene in a black Mercedes.
‘They looked like they had a death wish’
A DRAMATIC police chase through Melbourne’s southeast suburbs allegedly saw innocent drivers rammed this morning.
Karen’s husband is ‘number one suspect’
BORCE Ristevski is the chief suspect in the murder of his wife Karen, the Melbourne man’s own lawyer has conceded.
Karen’s husband ‘number one suspect’
BORCE Ristevski is the chief suspect in the murder of his wife Karen, the Melbourne man’s own lawyer has conceded.
Karen Ristevski: The case so far
KAREN Ristevski is Australia’s gone girl, whose bizarre disappearance has remained a mystery for eight months. But will there soon be answers?
Street drug that can melt plastic
IT’S been described as “coma in a bottle” and can bring on psychosis and hallucinations. It also caused 40 overdoses this weekend.
How rival gangs orchestrated Melbourne chaos
POLICE say they knew for weeks of plans by the “United Nations” of gangs to cause havoc at Melbourne’s White Night event.
Teens ‘slash woman’ at train station
THREE teenagers are on the run after a stabbing incident at a Melbourne train station.
‘It seems a very long time to me’
IT could be at least another year before accused Bourke Street killer driver Dimitrious Gargasoulas faces trial over the rampage that claimed six lives.
New clue in lift slashing murder
NEW CCTV footage has emerged of a man that looks like a murder suspect being hunted by Victoria Police.
Youth gang terrorises festival crowds
FESTIVAL goers in Melbourne’s west were punched and kicked, and had phones, wallets and bags stolen, by a gang of 40 youths.
Mum told to stay quiet on toilet lurker
A DISTRAUGHT mum whose daughter was watched by a man fondling himself while she used a public toilet was told not to make a police statement because he was known to have an intellectual disability.
Cop punches man in violent arrest video
VIDEO of a Victorian police officer apparently punching a man during an arrest has been posted — and hastily removed — from social media.
Body recovered from Gippsland waterway
THE body of a man who went missing on yesterday night has been recovered from water in East Gippsland.
Reason mum didn’t recognise her own son
AS THE hunt for Jonathan Dick goes on across three states, his family are grappling with the fact he is wanted over the murder of his brother.
Brother ‘out of touch with reality’
A TROUBLED man being hunted across three states had become increasingly erratic before the brutal Westfield murder.
Family had ‘no idea’ murder suspect was their son
AS SHE wept through a press conference about her son’s murder, this distraught mum failed to realise the suspect on the big screen was her other son.
CCTV clue in brutal ‘sword’ murder
THE horrific murder of a man at a Westfield shopping centre car park was captured on CCTV, police have confirmed.
‘It’s a calculated, vicious attack’
POLICE do not know why David Dick was viciously slashed without warning as he got out of a car park lift at a major Melbourne shopping centre.
Bullets fly in Elsternwick alley
THE moment a bandit unleashed a spray of bullets in an alleyway in Melbourne’s southeast has been captured on CCTV, before he fled with another man.
‘The people at the party s*** themselves’
GUESTS at a wild party in an Airbnb rental were jumping fences and hiding in backyards to get away from a weapon-yielding gang that gatecrashed.
Police hunt killer after ‘horrific’ mall death
POLICE are hunting a killer after a man with “horrific” head injuries was found dead at a shopping centre carpark in Doncaster.
Body found at major shopping mall
BREAKING: A group doing personal training in a carpark in Melbourne has made a grisly discovery this morning.
Killer boyfriend’s chilling last act
A YOUNG mother left her abusive partner and was trying to move on with her life when he stabbed her to death. He then left her something bizarre.
‘You were a brave heart’
THE sixth victim of the Bourke St car rampage was a finance consultant at Deloitte whose death has shattered her family and friends.
‘Screaming’ after bodies found
NEIGHBOURS heard loud screaming coming from a north Melbourne home on Sunday. Police found a grim scene inside.
Brother: ‘No one could have predicted it’
THE brother of the man who allegedly killed five in the Melbourne rampage says “no one could have predicted” what would happen.
Inside our worst detention centre
GANGS from a youth detention centre have been accused of turning Melbourne into “Melbronx” and the city has been compared to Johannesburg.
‘Police officers are too scared to act’
A FORMER senior police officer says a culture of fear within the force is paralysing Australian cops, leading to “horrible and tragic” results.
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