Melbourne driver stabbed his gay brother before killing four shoppers

Police shot the man driving the auto and he is being treated for non-life threatening bullet wounds.

A young child is among three people who were killed by a motorist who ploughed into pedestrians in Melbourne’s CBD on Friday afternoon.

More than 20 people in total were injured in the attacks, which police say are not terror-related. Pictures on national TV showed an upturned baby pram.

Police and paramedics with an injured pedestrian. “The baby flew out from under the vehicle and is being treated by paramedics on the side of the road”.

Hank Kerr was on the 96 tram when he saw a auto hitting pedestrians in Bourke St.

Police attend to pedestrian on the footpath after a police pursuit on a footpath in the city.

A vehicle has hit pedestrians in Bourke Street mall in Melbourne after reports it was driving erratically.

Bourke Street mall is still cordoned off as Victoria Police continue their investigations into the incident. Then I saw the van accelerate down the mall.

“He was just collecting people as he was going along and they were flying like skittles, basically”, Baylis told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

He was seen lying on the ground dressed only in red underwear and white shoes with several police offices standing over him. “Hearts go out to all those who’ve been hurt”.

Victorians and tourists were laying flowers in the city on Saturday, among them Premier Daniel Andrews who said people were filled grief, and anger.

The eyewitness said the baby flew out from under the auto and was being treated by paramedics on the side of the road.

“All we could see was just the auto and carnage – people were flying everywhere”.

He was on his lunch break when he was hit by a auto driven by 26-year-old James “Jimmy” Gargasoulas and leaves behind a wife and baby boy, Ten News reported.

Mr Gargasoulas was under police guard in hospital undergoing surgery for gunshot wounds, he said.

“There are a few ambulances around”.

A male deliberately drove into pedestrians in the Bourke Street mall.

Ambulance Victoria confirmed there were multiple injuries after people were hit by a auto.

Police are not now looking for anyone else.

She said Mr Gargasoulas hated the fact that his brother was gay but there could have been many reasons for the stabbing.