Freeman's Sister Speaks Out

0:00It's April 2, I'm Cory with the story. This is Sydney News Today, driven by AI. Desi Freeman, the guy who gunned down two Victoria police officers back on August 26, is finally off the board. He sparked Australia's biggest manhunt in years after killing leading senior Constable Neil Thompson and senior Constable Vadim Duarte-Hotard in. Poor Punka, while wounding a third cop. Freeman stayed hidden for seven months until Monday when police took him out during a three-hour standoff at 8.30 a.m. on a remote property at the Logalong, right on the New South Wales Victoria border. Earlier this week, his body got formally identified on Wednesday. Cops say he came out of a shipping container wrapped in just a blanket, then pulled a stolen service pistol from one of the fallen officers, forcing them to fire. Before all this, folks wondered if he'd taken his own life right after the shootings. Now his estranged sister is speaking out, saying she's ashamed and furious that her brother ditched his role as a dad and husband to become public.

1:01Enemy number one. She called him no hero, just a force of havoc, who'd risk his own wife and kids by going armed right in front of them, especially wild since he'd sent. Her cute pics of his young son just three days before the attack. She didn't know much about his life anymore, hadn't been close for years, and even thought he was dead early on. Freeman had changed his name from Desmond Filby after cutting ties with the family, their parents, both gone now, shared an anniversary on the exact day of the poor punka tragedy. Police are digging deeper now, hunting any accomplices who helped him hide out that long. His sister sends condolences to the officer's loved ones and calls real heroes, the ones who build up communities, not tear them down.