Brisbane, Australia —
One of the largest manhunts ever conducted in Australia has ended with the fatal shooting of a fugitive authorities believe to be Dezi Freeman, a self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen” who’d been on the run for seven months after killing two police officers.
Freeman disappeared into dense Australian wilderness in rural Victoria last August, after firing at the officers when they attempted to serve a search warrant on his property over alleged sex crimes.
Hundreds of police officers, dogs and helicopters spent days and weeks scouring the area around the small town of Porepunkah, where residents lived on edge for months amid fears a “heavily armed” Freeman was…