Dezi Freeman LIVE updates day two: Police vow to track down the people who helped Dezi Freeman

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A gun pulled by Dezi Freeman in his final moments belonged to one of the officers the self-proclaimed sovereign citizen executed, as authorities await formal identification of his body.

Police tracked the 56-year-old to a rural property in Thologolong, near Walwa on the Victorian-NSW border.

Freeman was wrapped in what appeared to be a blanket when he emerged from a container-like structure on Monday morning following a three-hour stand-off with heavily armed officers.

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush said he had viewed footage of Freeman pulling the gun from underneath the cloth and turning it towards police.

For more than 200 days, Freeman evaded police after killing two police officers at a rural property in Porepunkah, in Victoria’s High Country, on August 26 last year.

In a bonus episode of our daily podcast “The Morning Edition”, crime reporter Melissa Cunningham takes us inside the final hours of the largest manhunt in Australian history.

On an isolated bush block in the state’s north-east, in a squalid camp without running water or electricity, cop killer Dezi Freeman’s seven months on the run came to an end.

It’s unclear how or when the 56-year-old fugitive arrived at the Murray River Road property in Thologolong, where he was shot dead by heavily armed police on Monday morning.

Freeman was living among a cluster of shipping containers and portable buildings, in what one local described as “a whole heap of crap”.

Aerial footage taken after the siege shows a ramshackle camp sprawled around three containers, a donga and a broken-down bus, ringed by plastic tarps, camp chairs and cheap tables.

Read the full report here.

Police have vowed to continue chasing the people who helped Dezi Freeman hide from the law after the dangerous killer was shot dead in an early morning raid on a rural property.

Chief Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed that police were investigating whether Freeman was being assisted or harboured by supporters hours after Freeman was gunned down at a property in Thologolong in north-east Victoria.

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The end to Australia’s largest and most expensive manhunt was abrupt and violent — triggered by a tip-off from someone close to Dezi Freeman.

Officers were led to a bush property at Thologolong, near Walwa, where they mounted a meticulous operation to capture Freeman — about 150 kilometres from where he murdered Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart in Porepunkah last year.

Chief Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed Freeman’s death on Monday, saying the victims’ families were told first.

“Everything I know at this moment tells me the shooting was justified,” Bush said.

Follow our coverage for the latest developments after Freeman was shot by police on Monday morning.