The coffin of police officer Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart is carried from from the Victoria Police Academy chapel following his funeral service in Melbourne on September 5, 2025. Dezi Freeman is alleged to have fired on a team of 10 police officers, including members of the sexual offences and child investigation team, when they arrived at his rural property to execute a search warrant. - AFP
SYDNEY: Australian authorities offered a A$1 million (US$650,000) reward on Saturday for information leading to the capture of a gunman on the run for 11 days after allegedly killing two police officers.
More than 450 police have been searching the mountains of Victoria state for 56-year-old Dezi Freeman, previously known as Desmond Filby, since the August 26 shootings on a rural property that also injured a third officer.
