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A man has been arrested after allegedly brandishing a knife inside Watergardens Shopping Centre at Taylors Lakes in Melbourne’s northwest on Friday. The 30-year-old Sunshine man is alleged to have stolen the knife from a grocery store “before he began waving it around on Melton Hwy about 12.50pm,” Victoria Police said. He allegedly used the weapon to assault and threaten a 21-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman inside the shopping centre.
One man who helped perform the citizen’s arrest, Jack Hurmez told 7NEWS: “I took the knife away and then my cousin came and jumped on top of him.” Ambulance Victoria was also called to the scene, but no emergency treatment or transport was needed. Witnesses told 7NEWS the entire shopping centre went into lockdown. Another witness, Barbara Pace, told 7NEWS she was shopping at Kmart when the department store informed shoppers: “We’re locking the doors.
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