A 26-year-old man has been charged with murder and attempted murder following the death of a man in Melbourne’s CBD on Friday night when a driver ploughed into pedestrians on Bourke Street.
The man, which the Herald Sunhas named the man as Zain Khan, is from Melton West, around 45km west of Melbourne.
Officers were called to Melbourne’s bustling Bourke St at the intersection with Russell St at about 6pm on Friday after a white Toyota Aurion sedan hit three pedestrians before T-boning a Hyundai and a Mazda CX-5.
Eerie footage shows Khan, dressed in all-white, sitting on the roof of the Toyota for several minutes before police officers pulled him down and arrested him.
Police said the man was possibly travelling at 60 to 70 km/hr before the deadly collision and may have accelerated after hitting the pedestrians.
The driver of the Hyundai, a 76-year-old man from Brunswick in Melbourne’s inner north, died at the scene.
Three pedestrians and the driver and passenger of the CX-5, all in their twenties and thirties, were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
In a statement, Victoria Police said the Melton West man had been charged with one count of murder, three counts of attempted murder, three counts of intentionally cause serious injury and two counts of conduct endangering life.
He appeared at an after-hours court hearing where he was remanded in custody to reappear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 15 January 2024.
Police do not believe the incident was…
