An armed 'sovereign citizen' has reportedly fled with his wife and kids after shooting dead two police officers and wounding another at a rural property in Porepunkah, 300km northeast of Melbourne.

Local authorities urged residents to avoid the area, about 200 miles from Melbourne, as they search for the gunman. A third officer was wounded.

Two Australian police officers have been gunned down in an “execution” by a suspected sex offender who then took his wife and children hostage and fled into the bush, police said.

Police say a "heavily armed" male suspect managed to escape into the bush after the shooting in Victoria state.

An armed 'sovereign citizen' has reportedly fled with his wife and kids after shooting dead two police officers and wounding another at a rural property in Porepunkah, 300km…

Two police officers have been killed and another wounded at a shooting in the regional Victorian town of Porepunkah, about 300km north-east of Melbourne

Two police officers are dead and a third is wounded after being shot in rural southeast Australia by a gunman still on the loose.

A gunman suspected of killing two police officers branded cops 'frigging Nazis', 'Gestapo' and 'terrorist thugs' as he relentlessly targeted a female officer because she pulled…

Two officers were killed and another injured in a shooting at a rural property in Victoria on Tuesday.

Victoria police say alleged shooter remains on the run and armed after two officers killed and a third injured

A gunman suspected of killing two police officers branded cops 'frigging Nazis', 'Gestapo' and 'terrorist thugs' as he relentlessly targeted a female officer because she pulled…

A gunman suspected of killing two police officers branded cops 'frigging Nazis', 'Gestapo' and 'terrorist thugs' as he relentlessly targeted a female officer because she pulled…

The conspiracy theorist once tried to arrest a magistrate and prosecute the state premier for treason.

Police say man suspected of shooting dead two officers knows Victorian high country bushland ‘better than us’, as tributes paid to officers killed

The 56-year-old allegedly gunned down a 59-year-old detective and a 35-year-old senior constable in 'cold blood' after an arrest warrant went bad at Freeman's bush retreat in…

As 10 officers made their way up a Porepunkah drive, they were being watched. Soon, two were dead

Australian police on Wednesday identified the gunman accused of killing two police officers and injuring a third a day prior as the manhunt for the suspect continued.

Authorities impose no-fly zone over Porepunkah after Dezi Freeman reportedly flees into dense bush

Reged Ahmad speaks to Catie McLeod, who is on the ground in Porepunkah, and Nino Bucci about what we know of the suspect and the manhunt for him

A peaceful Victoria town has been rocked by the fatal shootings of two police officers, leaving locals shuttered indoors and police scouring bushland for the suspect

Dezi Freeman went on the run after being suspected of fatally shooting two officers at a property in Porepunkah, 300km northeast of Melbourne, on Tuesday.