Man charged following Jung homicide

Detectives from the Homicide Squad have this evening charged a man as part of the investigation into the death of a man in Jung yesterday.

The 49-year-old man has been charged with one count of murder.

The charge follows an incident where emergency services were called to reports of a man’s body located off the Henty Highway near Finlayson Road at about 9.15am.

The deceased man, believed to be aged in his 80s, is yet to be formally identified.

On Monday evening, police located a man behaving erratically on Firebrace Street in Horsham around 8.30pm.

Officers negotiated with the man who was armed with a knife before he was arrested about 11pm.

The Minyip man has been remanded to appear at Horsham Magistrates’ Court tomorrow.

Belinda Batty

Media Unit
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