Dezi Freeman LIVE updates day two: Police vow to track down the people who helped Dezi Freeman

On an isolated bush block in the state’s north-east, in a squalid camp without running water or electricity, cop killer Dezi Freeman’s seven months on the run came to an end.

It’s unclear how or when the 56-year-old fugitive arrived at the Murray River Road property in Thologolong, where he was shot dead by heavily armed police on Monday morning.

Freeman was living among a cluster of shipping containers and portable buildings, in what one local described as “a whole heap of crap”.

Aerial footage taken after the siege shows a ramshackle camp sprawled around three containers, a donga and a broken-down bus, ringed by plastic tarps, camp chairs and cheap tables.

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Police have vowed to continue chasing the people who helped Dezi Freeman hide from the law after the dangerous killer was shot dead in an early morning raid on a rural property.

Chief Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed that police were investigating whether Freeman was being assisted or harboured by supporters hours after Freeman was gunned down at a property in Thologolong in north-east Victoria.

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The end to Australia’s largest and most expensive manhunt was abrupt and violent — triggered by a tip-off from someone close to Dezi Freeman.

Officers were led to a bush property at Thologolong, near Walwa, where they mounted a meticulous operation to capture Freeman — about 150 kilometres from where he murdered Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart in Porepunkah last year.

Chief Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed Freeman’s death on Monday, saying the victims’ families were told first.

“Everything I know at this moment tells me the shooting was justified,” Bush said.

Follow our coverage for the latest developments after Freeman was shot by police on Monday morning.