What the records say
- When
- 26 Aug 2025
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 2
- Coordinates
- 36.70° S, 146.88° E
- Description
- 2025 fatal police shooting in Porepunkah, Victoria, Australia
- Injured
- 1
Porepunkah police shootings
2025 killing of police officers
The Porepunkah police shooting occurred on the morning of 26 August 2025, when Australian man Dezi Bird Freeman shot and killed police officers Neal Thompson and Vadim De Waart-Hottart and injured a third.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Two Victoria Police officers are killed and a third is wounded while executing a warrant for historical sex offences at a property in Porepunkah, Victoria”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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