Overview
- Police charged a 32-year-old Dallas man with affray, recklessly causing injury and using a controlled weapon without excuse after an early-morning incident.
- He was remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court tonight after bystanders detained him near Lonsdale and Elizabeth streets.
- Officers allege he ran through a Lonsdale Street car park about 6am with a knife before two tradies chased and restrained him.
- A 41-year-old Maddingley man was stabbed in the lower body and taken to St Vincent’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while a 35-year-old Sanctuary Lakes man was unhurt.
- Police say the investigation continues, and PORT units have increased patrols across the CBD following last month’s attack.