UPDATE (21 December 2015): A 46-year-old Frankston man, who remains under police guard in hospital, has been charged with one count of murder and remanded to appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
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THE Frankston man shot by special operations group police during Tuesday’s siege still had not been interviewed, or charged, by Friday.
Detective Senior Sergeant Steve McIntyre, of the Homicide Squad, said police were “waiting on advice from medical staff” before indicting the man, 46, at The Alfred hospital, where he is in a serious condition under police guard.
The man, allegedly armed with long-bladed knives, was shot in the stomach and leg last Tuesday morning (15 December) after holding three women and another man hostage at a Dandenong Rd East house since 5.30pm the previous day.
Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill said police raided the house “when the situation deteriorated in the early hours of this morning”.
“The offender was becoming quite irrational,” he said. “He was making threats against the three females … he was making threats of violence.”
Assistant Commissioner Hill said police responded when the man stabbed one of the women in the house in the leg. “Our members from the SOG fired shots.
The offender was struck by two shots: one to the stomach area, one to the leg.”
The woman was taken to Frankston Hospital with leg wounds.
Assistant Commissioner Hill said another woman inside the house had been slashed on the hand and suffered a blow to the head.
The siege followed a fight in Boonong Av, Seaford, Monday, where a Seaford man, 45, was stabbed in the lower back. He is believed to have walked to a house in nearby Carder Av where the fight continued and he was stabbed to the upper body.
Police and emergency services crews found the man with life-threatening injuries. He died later in hospital.
