Two people charged over separate Melbourne CBD incidents that sent several to hospital
A man has been charged over an incident in Melbourne’s CBD which resulted in four people being taken to hospital. Meanwhile in a separate incident a man allegedly armed with broken glass was shot by a protective services officer.
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00:00 There were quite dramatic scenes here right in the heart of Melbourne about half past
00:05 five yesterday afternoon. One of the main thoroughfares closed off, Swanston Street
00:09 closed, Prince's Bridge near Flinders Street Station as emergency services responded to
00:15 the incident. Police saying that two protective services officers who normally patrol Melbourne's
00:20 train stations were supporting police as they responded to an incident when these two PSOs
00:25 encountered a man armed with broken glass. They tried to subdue him using pepper spray.
00:30 Apparently that had no effect. So then one of the PSOs shot him, inflicting non-life
00:35 threatening injuries. Police say that the man has been taken to hospital. So the actual
00:40 incident that the PSOs were supporting the police in the response to was happening at
00:44 the same time. Obviously police were called to the tram stop there because a man had allegedly
00:50 boarded a tram and attempted to rob two people on board. And then when police arrived, the
00:55 man allegedly assaulted four people on board with a glass bottle as well. That man has
01:02 since been arrested. The four people who were assaulted were all taken to hospital yesterday,
01:06 all suffering non-life threatening injuries. The man, a 27 year old South Melbourne man,
01:10 has since been charged with four counts of recklessly causing injuries. He's been remanded
01:15 in custody. Police say both incidents being investigated, neither related to terror and
01:21 there's no wider concern for the community. And they say that the incident involving the
01:26 PSO shooting a man will be investigated by the armed crime squad with oversight from
01:33 the police's professional standards command.
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