Specialists will look at what incited an "upset" man to approach and undermine a gathering of cops with a blade before he was shot in the chest and killed before drivers on the Monash Freeway on Thursday morning.
Right hand Police Commissioner Bob Hill said the 53-year-old Narre Warren man was shot in the chest in the wake of moving toward officials who were endeavoring to quiet him down.
The man was known to police and had all the earmarks of being having an emotional wellness scene, Mr Hill said.
Police were called to the Monash Freeway, close to the Eastlink exchange in Dandenong North, about 10am on Thursday after concerns were raised about the man, who had halted almost an entrance ramp.
Mr Hill said five officials showed up to discover the man "very upset".
"We attempted to haggle with the male, we attempted to really quiet the male down. At a point during [the negotiations] the male has created a blade and progressed on police individuals," he said.
Police discharged non-deadly slugs - known as a bean sack round - as the man moved toward officials, and afterward shot him in the chest with a quick firing gun. The man kicked the bucket at the scene.
Five cops from the Critical Incident Response Team were engaged with the underlying trade and seven additional officials showed up as the shooting happened.
The whole episode was caught on the officials' body-worn cameras and VicRoads road cameras.
Police had been called to the man's Narre Warren house already, Mr Hill stated, however the man didn't have a criminal record and had not been engaged with police for quite a while. Police enlightened the man's family concerning his demise on Thursday.
Mr Hill, from the Southern Metro Region, said murder crew investigators, under the oversight of the Professional Standards Command, would explore the shooting. The officials included will experience blood and liquor tests.
"We are as yet attempting to get why, what's propelled, what's set off this circumstance," Mr Hill said.
"There would've been various bystanders in engine vehicles that would've seen really what happened. It is a pitiful event.
"The individuals engaged with this occurrence will be scarred by this situation, where somebody has lost their life."
One official endured minor wounds in the wake of tumbling to the ground as the occurrence finished.
Truck driver Terry Leehane disclosed to Nine News he was driving towards the city when squad cars pulled over all paths and halted traffic.
He said one cop addressed the man while the others remained back. The man in the vehicle had appeared "unsettled" and was "moving around a piece", he said.
"Nothing appeared to occur and afterward they continued conversing with him, they were all quite cool and quiet ... at that point out of nowhere he began to put his hand out," he said.
"As he lifted his hand, the cop put his hands up and strolled back to the gathering. They had somewhat of a conversation and afterward that is the point at which they returned and he moved behind a VicRoads van and I was unable to see.
"There was around four shots and that was it, essentially."
Another observer who recognized himself as Ben depicted the occurrence as a "stalemate" among police and a man matured around 50 or 60.
"They had firearms drawn on the aggressor," Ben disclosed to ABC Radio Melbourne. "I don't have a clue whether it was an interest and they have pulled him up over yonder or why he's in that position."
An enormous stretch of the turnpike's city-bound paths stayed void for around six hours, with legal officials and investigators inspecting the man's silver 2008 Mitsubishi Colt.
The man's body was expelled from the scene 3.10pm, and the street revived to traffic soon after 4pm.
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