Bat-wielding hero tried to stop deranged Melbourne driver

That is the dramatic second a person armed with a baseball bat tried to cease the crazed Melbourne motorist earlier than he killed 4 individuals.

The person was filmed working into the center of the street outdoors Flinders Avenue Station as a driver named by police as Dimitrious Gargasoulas, 26, pulled doughnuts in entrance of onlookers.

Whereas the driving force screamed 'f*** the world' and branded these watching 'sheep', the unidentified man raised a baseball bat over his ought to in an obvious try to cease the car.

That is the second a bat-wielding man tried to cease deranged motorist Dimitrious Gargasoulas, 26, as he pulled doughnuts outdoors Flinders Avenue Station, in Melbourne

Meesha Rhodes Ali captured the second the person bumped into the road and tried to hit the maroon Holden with a bat, earlier than virtually being run down

His transfer solely appears to anger the driving force additional, because the automotive skids in the direction of the digicam, almost knocking the person down.

The person carrying the bat, and a second man who additionally bumped into the road with him, are compelled to retreat because the motorist continues to tug doughnuts within the street.

Meesha Rhodes Ali, who filmed the footage, advised The Undertaking: 'They had been fairly courageous.

'I consider they had been attempting to cease him as a result of at one level he stopped proper in entrance of us and as he got here round he almost swiped them proper off the street.

Moments after this was filmed, the automotive drove down Swanston Avenue, mounted the pavement after which ploughed right into a mall, killing 4 and wounding 25

'After I noticed that I simply thought this man is out to kill somebody. We did not know if he had a weapon with him, if he was going to tug out a gun... It was actually loopy.'

On the finish of the footage, the maroon Holden might be seen taking off down Swanston Avenue, the place it mounted the pavement earlier than turning left into Bourke Avenue Mall.

In complete 4 individuals, together with a person and lady of their thirties and a toddler, had been killed with one other 25 individuals wounded.

The carnage stopped round Elizabeth Avenue after police shot the driving force and dragged him from his car.

A person and lady of their thirties and a toddler are reported to be amongst these killed, as graphic video confirmed bloodied victims laying on the street

Police haven't mentioned a motive for the assault, however Gargasoulas is thought to have a historical past of drug abuse, psychological points and violence

Gargasoulas has been arrested and is now in police custody, with fees resulting from be laid following a coroner's investigation.

His motivation for the assault will not be recognized, however police have dominated out terrorism. Gargasoulas has a historical past of drug abuse, violence, and psychological points.

Within the weeks earlier than his assault, he posted a collection of more and more unhinged Fb posts wherein he vows 'to have God's legal guidelines restored'.

In one other put up he describes himself as a Muslim Greek Kurd. 

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