Overview
- A 32-year-old man from Dallas has been charged with affray, recklessly causing injury, and using a controlled weapon without excuse.
- He was remanded in custody and appeared at Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday night.
- Police allege the man ran through a Lonsdale Street shopping-centre carpark about 6am carrying a knife and acting erratically near Melbourne Central.
- Two tradies pursued him along Elizabeth Street and detained him near the Lonsdale Street intersection; officers arrived within minutes.
- 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 uninjured.