<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Two people have been arrested as part of the investigation in to fugitive police killer Dezi Freeman.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A man and a woman were arrested at 7am today at two properties in north-east </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/victoria" rel="" target="" title="Victoria"><span>Victoria</span></a><span>, police said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police confirmed the arrests were part of the probe into the movements of Freeman following the shootings in Porepunkah last August.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE UPDATES:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-iran-war-live-updates-april-4-donald-trump-latest-world-news-headlines/d8326628-ad7f-4e35-b570-e1e468179734"><strong><span>The global financial hub copping it 3X harder at the bowser</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The pair are being interviewed. They are not related to Freeman.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/dezi-freeman-shot-reports-emerge-fugitive-killed-by-armed-police/77941806-6f56-4584-a39f-f5c57263a337" rel="" target="" title="double police killer died in a volley of gunfire on Monday "><span>double police killer died in a volley of gunfire on Monday</span></a><span> after seven months on the run.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police stormed a property in Victoria's rural north-east.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/dezi-freeman-shooting-arrests/8a79e264-7c08-4d25-a41a-26bab8418568" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Freeman was hiding out in something that resembled a shipping container and a caravan in Thologolong north-east of Porepunkah and on the border with </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/new-south-wales" target="_blank" title="NSW"><span>NSW</span></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/deadly-venomous-snakes-pushed-towards-australias-highly-populated-east-coast/2d63af8c-69cd-4fe9-b8ef-5043dfe2a718"><strong><span>Australia's deadliest snakes being driven towards densely populated areas</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The seven-month manhunt</span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/dezi-freeman-update-police-tracked-car-to-hideout-on-rural-property-before-the-manhunt-ended-in-hail-of-bullets/ceab03c4-6d99-4417-9e9f-ee674d52548c" rel="" target="" title=" ended in a hail of bullets"><span> ended in a hail of bullets</span></a><span> outside his hiding place, with the fugitive understood to have fired two shots before police returned fire up to 20 times.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Special Operations Group members had spent three hours at the property attempting to negotiate a peaceful surrender with Freeman before multiple shots were fired.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He fired two shots and eight police responded. He was shot at least 20 times," </span><em><span>The Age</span></em><span> crime writer John Silvester told 3AW.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"In all probability, the gun was shot out of his hand because it was some distance away."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Investigators had been tracking a car coming and going from 56-year-old Freeman's hideout before he was killed in a shootout about 8.30am on Monday, 9News understands.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>9News has been told officers had been surveilling Freeman for several days after watching the car, which repeatedly made the almost 200-kilometre trip between Porepunkah and Thologolong, located on the Victoria-NSW border.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police have asserted it would have been very difficult for the fugitive to remain hidden for so long without help.</span></div></div>