Overview
- Victoria Police charged a 16-year-old over the random stabbing of a 25-year-old at Clayton’s M-City, including an offence for allegedly offending while on bail, and he has been remanded.
- Newly released CCTV shows the attacker following the woman onto an escalator before stabbing her, and officers arrested him shortly after at a local medical centre.
- In Port Melbourne, a 71-year-old was stabbed three times during a pre-dawn walk, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and police are searching for the offender.
- Police are investigating a daylight shooting in Craigieburn that left a man in his 20s with non-life-threatening lower-body injuries.
- In a separate February machete attack in Mickleham, a 15-year-old has been charged and detectives are seeking a second male, as statewide data show crime up 2% in 2025 with 17,400 knives and machetes seized.