Boy Dead, Vic Police Shoot Father

[icyfroth]

Devastated friends have taken to social media to express their shock and sorrow after an 11-year-old boy was killed by his father at a cricket oval in Melbourne's southeast.

Luke Batty died from severe head injuries at the oval in Tyabb, near Hastings, after he was attacked following the local club's cricket training.

The year six Flinders Christian Community College pupil was treated at the scene but was unable to be revived.

The victim's 54-year-old father, from Chelsea Heights, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition, after police say he came at officers with a knife after they were called to the scene in Tyabb, near Hastings, about 6.30pm (AEDT).

Commander Doug Fryer would not confirm if the father inflicted the boy's "quite brutal" injuries or exactly how the boy died, insisting that it was a matter for the coroner.

"I confirm that the male shot by police is father of the child who is deceased and we're not looking for anyone else," he said during a media briefing at the scene last night.

"I can confirm that the young boy has died of significant injuries. I'm not going to go into the detail of how they occurred or what they were," Fryer said on Thursday morning.

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WHAAAAT????!!!!

[*crikey*mate*]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

From reports here ( quite close by) Luke received dreadful head injuries followed by a vicious stabbing. The father is the ex of the boys mothers.

What I can't get my around is why the adults there couldn't intervene. Restrain the man. I understand he had a knife but surely with enough adults he could have been stopped? It was a cricket training match with BATS!

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and if they had have killed or injured the man?

Then it is they that would be held responsible.

and just maybe, it happened so quickly, that no one knew just what to do.

Maybe it took time to assess the situation and they were trying to protect their own children, get them to safety, protect them from witnessing such a travesty.

[bluecat*dancing]

Sometimes shock can stop you from reacting in the way that you would expect to.

[purple_haize]

TS...........you always disagree with me.

Why should the public have to pay for his upkeep in jail?

Having her estranged husband around would be a constant reminder of what he did to her precious son..............obviously you have never lost a child in death.

Constant reminders hinder the grieving process, this mother will never get over what happened to her son as it is, she doesnt need the father around, having to go through the court process etc.

I feel absolutely terrible for the pain the mother is going through and will continue to go through, for the rest of her life.

[twinkles**stars]

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@purple_haize wrote:

TS...........you always disagree with me.

Why should the public have to pay for his upkeep in jail?

Having her estranged husband around would be a constant reminder of what he did to her precious son..............obviously you have never lost a child in death.

Constant reminders hinder the grieving process, this mother will never get over what happened to her son as it is, she doesnt need the father around, having to go through the court process etc.

I feel absolutely terrible for the pain the mother is going through and will continue to go through, for the rest of her life.

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As usual you imagine things. I rarely visit this forum so I don't always disagree with you 🙂

Having her ex around? No he would be locked away, not hanging around as a constatnt reminder. A court process often gives the grieving something to hold on to, knowing (hoping) the correct punishment with be delivered. There will be no punishment now.

[joz*garage]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

Don't forget the policeman in this - forced to shoot a man to save oithers - suicide by police - he has to live with this too.

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yeah the cop could of shot the bloke in the leg or somewhere else besides the chest

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It doesn't work like that, Joe.   Police shoot to stop the threat and they are trained to shoot at centre body mass.

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yeah i 'spose you had to be there

its still surprises me though

i reckon i wouldve been calm enough to aim and hit the leg 

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Then you would not be doing what you are trained to do.   You don't aim at arms or legs or hands holding weapons.  When a Policer Officer decides that he needs to shoot, he is trained to shoot at the "body mass" ie torso.

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are they actually trained to shoot to kill? they did try to immobilize him with a stun gun first... i think was... which failed

[**meep**]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

From reports here ( quite close by) Luke received dreadful head injuries followed by a vicious stabbing. The father is the ex of the boys mothers.

What I can't get my around is why the adults there couldn't intervene. Restrain the man. I understand he had a knife but surely with enough adults he could have been stopped? It was a cricket training match with BATS!

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It is really difficult to say at this stage whether there was anything that could have been done.   According to another reprort, the father waited until Luke was 'seperated from adults before he acted". 

[polocross58]

Immediately, the boy takes second place in people's concerns

The killer takes ascendency

Someone mentioned 'Life sentence without parole'

In Australia ?  Or have we been watching too much US tv ?

Someone else mentioned 'hard labour'.   Snort

'Quote:  ' Having her ex around? No he would be locked away, not hanging around as a constatnt reminder. A court process often gives the grieving something to hold on to, knowing (hoping) the correct punishment with be delivered. There will be no punishment now' unquote.

Wrong.  There was punishment alright

and it only cost us a bullet

Bargain

No trials

No filth solicitor arguing his 'cllient' was under the influence -- was depressed -- suffers remorse -- has a dicky knee and couldn't survive a handful of years in prison, etc

Who knows, the animal might have claimed 'provocation' !

And all with the mother and witnesses compelled to attend a farce trial -- all of them knowing the sentence would never match the crime

I just hope the cowardly killer was conscious as decent people in the hospital were forced to attempt to save his worthless skin

I hope he was conscious and knew he was dying -- and why he was dying

The mother saw justice delivered on the spot.  Real justice.  I'll bet it will console her far more than seeing the scum get even more attention followed by a handful of years and early parole

[tasfleur]

Poor little boy.  Innocent and yet paying for his father's rage with his life .... 

[bluecat*dancing]

It is a shame that the coward did not survive. He got out of it easy. Perhaps the mother would have wanted him to go to Court and get justice for her son. Perhaps she would not. Who knows? Its just pure speculation unless, or until, she makes that publicly known. I'm sure that all she wants right now is to have her little boy back, safe and sound.

[mugssy65]

Polo I wish I could kudos you more than once!