A man has been charged with a series of charges over a dramatic siege involving an innocent father and his baby, who were held inside their own home for hours.
The ordeal began about 3.40pm on Tuesday, when a police helicopter followed a car in Melbourne’s west believed to have been stolen in a burglary in Snake Valley earlier that day, Melbourne police said. Victory.
Police allege the man got out of the car and shot at officers with a high-powered rifle before running towards a stranger’s home in Weir Views, 22 kilometers west of Melbourne’s financial district.
There she found the father and his baby, who were held inside while police negotiated for several hours Tuesday night before they finally left the home two hours later.
Television helicopter footage captured the dramatic moment the boy was rescued from the house and placed in the arms of a waiting armed police officer.
Shortly afterward, the boy’s father was seen escaping from the house. Neither he nor the child were injured during the incident.
Police snipers from the Special Operations Group were seen on a nearby rooftop as specialist officers negotiated with the armed criminal.
The man allegedly fired at police once again before a highly trained police dog was deployed to assist with the man’s arrest shortly after 6 p.m.
Footage from a news helicopter shows two armed personnel, dressed in green uniforms, on a roof outside a neighboring house during Tuesday’s siege (pictured).
A shirtless man is seen being treated by paramedics at the scene in Weir Views, Melbourne.
The man suffered a dog bite during the arrest and was taken to the hospital under police guard.
A shirtless man was seen handcuffed outside the front of a home surrounded by heavily armed officers while being treated by paramedics.
On Friday, the 26-year-old was charged with a variety of offenses including aggravated carjacking, two counts of false imprisonment, five counts of assaulting police and making threats to kill.
Footage taken from a news helicopter shows two armed people, dressed in green uniforms, on a roof in front of a neighboring house. The house they were focusing on had a pink children’s bicycle leaning against the outside wall.
Police ordered residents in the vicinity of Leon Drive to stay inside until further notice.
Television footage from a helicopter captured the dramatic moment the boy was rescued from the house and placed in the arms of an armed police officer (pictured).
Amanda McGregor was picking up her young son from daycare when she returned to the hostage incident next door.
“I think they jumped my fence to get next door, my neighbor also said she saw a lot of commotion at the front of the property at first,” he told the Herald Sun.
He described his next-door neighbor as “lovely.”
‘I don’t know how they physically entered his house to keep him and his baby hostage. Thank God his wife wasn’t there,’ he said.
“He probably would have been resting because he works at 3 in the morning.”