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????!!!!

[twinkles**stars]

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

No the mother saw her son die, as did his siblings. Those siblings also saw their father shot. There is nothing in that to console anyone. We now have children that will never understand why their father killed their brother.....but they also have visions of their father being shot and then dying.

When my father died, I wanted justice. I did not want the same fate for the person responsible.

[purple_haize]

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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.

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you let your imagination run riot.....

The court process takes along time, this poor mother doesnt need a drawn out court case, anyway he is dead, so there wont be a court case that she has to go through, she doesnt need a court case to hang on to, she needs to grieve and that will be a long process for her, and I doubt very much if she will ever get over losing her son.

[mugssy65]

I would want him dead! I'd have a go at it myself given the chance, I'm vindictive like that!

[twinkles**stars]

2 wrongs don't make a right

[polocross58]

Some people argue in an empty room

Tell you what --- go to town and survey people's opinions

Until then, why presume to speak on behalf of the mother or anyone else

It can't be changed

He was a gutless coward

That didn't begin overnight

If he had other children, his character would be known to them

If he was such a sorry excuse for a man that he used a bat and knife on a little boy, I personally doubt his kids will mourn the loss

And for once in this country, the victims, the witnesses and the public at large saw a sentence (inadvertent sentence though it was) actually fitted the crime

People have a sense of justice

apart, that is, from those who's concerns seem to belong to the perpetrators

Done

The killer's dead and gone

And people will have a grave to spit on for once

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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

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Joe, they are trained to remove the threat and are trained to shoot at the largest body mass.  It reduces the errors and stops  stray bullets.  Of course there is a chance that someone who is shot in the torso, will die.    The question is not where the shot was aimed  but if  the use of force was appropriate under the circumstances.

[mugssy65]

Each to their own.
I only see one wrong.

[polocross58]

The killer was shot by pollice in the line of duty

Next:  off you go.  Don't expect to see you for a long time, seeing you'll be travelling the world, preaching the 'two wrongs don't make a right' philosphy to governments across the globe as pertains to the endless wars and uncountable deaths occurring every minute ---- after which you'll need to do weight training in order to cart your soapbox around China, Russia, all of south-eastern asia and of the course the US, all of which have capital punishment

[twinkles**stars]

*sigh*

[**meep**]

Joe, the father knew his actions would get him killed

"The interim police investigation indicates the man had a premeditated plan to kill his son and then commit "suicide by cop"