Man arrested after dramatic pursuit through Melbourne CBD

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A man has been arrested in Melbourne after a car was spotted driving erratically through the CBD before ending up in a hotel lobby.

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00:00So this is where this dramatic police chase has ended.

00:06The man has abandoned his car down the end of this lane.

00:10He had a gun, he ran through here being pursued by police.

00:14Witnesses we've spoken to, some tradies who are actually working here,

00:18say they saw the man run through, they heard shots,

00:21they believe that this man did fire a shot

00:24and they later found rubber bullets as well,

00:26so they say police discharged these.

00:29The man's then run into this hotel across here, into the lobby.

00:33We've spoken to one witness, a man here from Mexico,

00:36who's here to run the marathon, which was just on the weekend.

00:39He says that this gunman actually pointed the gun at him.

00:43He managed to run to the back of the lobby, to the restaurant,

00:47and by that point all the police officers who were swarming here

00:50ran in and arrested this man.

00:52So he had a gun and he pointed it at you and another person?

00:56Yeah, I see he pointed at me in front and I put my back on the wall

01:03and run with my back on the wall.

01:06How did you feel?

01:08It's so very weird, but I see a lot of police and they take me to the street and get me safe.

01:20So this all started, police say that the man was driving with his wife when he became quite erratic,

01:27they ran out of petrol and the man then carjacked another vehicle.

01:31From that point he's driven to the North Melbourne area where he's carjacked a second vehicle

01:37and from there he's driven that vehicle into the city where we've seen these erratic scenes.

01:42He was driving, witnesses say sometimes at 100 kilometres an hour through the city,

01:48beeping his horn, yelling out the window and running red lights.

01:52And some witnesses say he was mounting the curb at some points.

01:55So this obviously attracted the attention of police who followed him for some time

01:59and they followed him to the end of this lane where he's abandoned his car

02:04and then ended up in the hotel behind me.

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