As Melbourne continues to mourn following yesterday’s fatal car rampage on the Bourke Street Mall, Victoria Police have confirmed that a three-month-old baby boy injured in the attack has died in hospital.
The tragic news brings the death toll to five. A ten-year-old girl, a man aged 25, a 32-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man were also killed when a driver deliberately mounted the pavement and sped at pedestrians.
Police say that the accused driver, 26-year-old Dimitrios Gargasoulas, remains in hospital, where he is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, and will be interviewed later this weekend.
Gargasoulas had been due to appear in court yesterday for an unrelated matter, and police say he has yet to be charged in connection with the attack that has so far killed five.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton told media today that:
“Surgery is still occurring. We still haven’t been able to be in a position to interview and charge that offender [but] that’s still our intention. Through the course of the weekend we will be looking to try and get that opportunity to step in and interview and charge that offender.”
Tributes from seemingly every corner of the Melbourne community have flowed in since the attack, and the Bourke Street Mall has become a makeshift shrine for those whose lives were taken.
Source: ABC News / Victoria Police.
Photo: Wayne Taylor / Getty.
