A Hells Angel biker wanted over a deadly shooting spree in central Melbourne which left one bystander dead surrendered yesterday to authorities, ending an Australia-wide manhunt.
Christopher Wayne Hudson, 29, surrendered to officers at a police station north of Melbourne after his parents made an emotional televised appeal to him to surrender, a police spokeswoman said.
"Late this afternoon he handed himself in to the Wallan police station," a police spokesperson said.
Police allege Hudson was in a nightclub with his girlfriend, a former model, and another woman, with whom Hudson had a disagreement and then began beating.
Minutes later, police claim, Hudson and his girlfriend were in the street outside the nightclub, tussling over getting into a taxi as he held her by the hair, when two bystanders approached to help.
The gunman shot all three at point blank range, police say.
Forty-three-year old lawyer Brendan Keilar died at the scene while the second man, Dutch tourist Paul de Waard, remains in serious condition in hospital.
The 24-year-old woman underwent emergency surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she was in a stable condition.
Police Detective Inspector Stephen Clark said Hudson would be returned to Melbourne yesterday and brought before a court to be charged with murder and other offenses.
Hudson was a Hells Angels member who was himself shot twice last year during a violent brawl at a kick-boxing tournament in the Gold Coast tourist region of Queensland state.
The shooting threw central Melbourne into chaos at the height of the rush hour.
Commuters fled in panic and several city blocks were sealed off as elite police hunted for the gunman.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said immediately after the shooting that he was willing to consider further toughening the nation's gun laws.
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