Overview

• Just before 5 pm on Friday at a Keysborough shopping centre chemist, two teens allegedly assaulted a 70-year-old man trying to stop them leaving with suspected stolen items
• Around 7 pm the same evening in Dingley Village, the suspects approached and stabbed a 16-year-old boy waiting at a bus stop in what police described as an unprovoked attack
• Paramedics took both the elderly man and the teenager from Dandenong North to hospital with serious injuries
• The Dandenong and Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit is leading the inquiry with detectives, local police and dog teams scouring south-east suburbs
• These linked incidents follow an October 2024 shopping-centre stabbing that led to seven teen arrests, underscoring ongoing concerns over youth violence in Melbourne