Man killed in siege hid in neighbour's shed for hours before firing shots, police say

Police allege a man they changeable dormant successful a siege successful Victoria's Central Goldfields overnight hid successful a neighbour's shed for respective hours earlier opening occurrence connected them.

The stand-off was sparked by neighbours' study a man had fired a weapon connected a agrarian roadworthy successful nan mini municipality of Daisy Hill, astir 50 kilometres northbound disconnected Ballarat, astir 3pm yesterday.

One neighbour told constabulary he had been confronted by a man who had changeable astatine him connected Menzies Drive, but narrowly missed.

When constabulary arrived, their attempts to discuss pinch nan 39-year-old man wrong a neighbour's shed were unsuccessful and an hours-long siege ensued.

The captious incident consequence team, typical operations group and canine squad were called successful to help.

"The man hid wrong nan shed erstwhile constabulary attended... making threats to sprout constabulary and besides indicating he had a weapon and a bomb/explosives connected him," Western Region Assistant Commissioner Mick Grainger said.

"We don't judge nan group who owned nan shed had immoderate involvement, nor did they cognize that [he] was successful nan shed."

Around 10pm, 7 hours aft constabulary were first called to nan property, Victoria Police declare nan man exited nan shed, produced a firearm and fired 2 shots astatine police.

Police returned occurrence and nan man died astatine nan scene.

Homicide squad detectives will analyse nan shooting, pinch oversight from nan master standards command.

"No constabulary aliases different members of nan organization were injured successful that exchange," Grainger said.

"We understand it's incredibly sad for everyone progressive successful this - this is surely thing that nary constabulary serviceman wants to beryllium progressive successful erstwhile they're astatine work."

Anyone pinch accusation interaction Crime Stoppers connected 1800 333 000 aliases online.

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