Brighton siege: Shooting victim a Chinese national who had recently married

Police have moved to reassure the community they have no intelligence to suggest there is an increased terror threat.

"I want to stress at this stage that the community should feel reassured we aren't looking for any other people but the investigation is still ongoing," Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said.

He said there would be a heavier police presence at major sporting events over the Queen's birthday long weekend.

"You'll see increased police patrols from a public reassurance perspective."

(With that, we're closing down the blog for today).

In case you missed the press conference on the Brighton siege with Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton, here is the full video.

The top-voted comment on the video nicely sums up the mood. "Given the serious nature of the Brighton event, we owe a debt to the Victoria Police for good, well done work," the commenter wrote.

The man shot and killed in the Brighton siege was a father and had only recently married, police have said.

Police also revealed the woman taken hostage by Yacqub Khayre was a 36- year-old Colombian national living in Australia.

Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said she had been tied up in a unit in the Buckingham Serviced Apartments for "a period of time" but was not seriously injured during the siege.

"As I understand she was not physically injured but has been very significantly traumatised by this event, as you would expect," Commissioner Patton said.

He said the woman was recovering and police would provide her support.

The most heartbreaking detail of the press conference was arguably the description of the shooting victim.

Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said the victim was a 36-year-old Chinese national who had "recently married and had had a child".

The man had been working as a receptionist at the Buckingham Serviced Apartments on Bay Street in Brighton.

Here is a quick summary of Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton's press conference at 4.30pm:

• He said police command are immensely proud of the way its members responded an the courage they showed. "Nobody goes to work expecting to be shot," he said. The officers were fired upon at the scene, returned fire and shot dead the gunman.
• Three police officers were injured. One was shot in the face and will require pellets to be removed. The other will shot in the hand and will require skin grafts. Their injuries are "very serious but not life threatening". The third officer was treated at the scene for injuries.
• Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton spoke with the three injured members, providing comfort and support.
• Police have established two crime scenes - one at the gunman's home in Roxburgh Park, where they executed a warrant at 1.20am on Tuesday. The forensic search of the property will continue into the evening.
• The other crime scene is the apartment building in Bay Street in Brighton, where police expect to wind down their inquiries within the next two hours.
• The escort who was called to the Brighton apartment and taken hostage has been severely traumatised by the siege, and police are providing support.
• The victim was a 36-year-old Chinese national. "He recently married and had had a child," he said. Police extended their condolences to the family.
• Police are not looking for any other persons of interest in relation to the siege. "The community should feel reassured we are not looking for any other people," he said. There will be increased police patrols on the Queens Birthday Weekend.

In question time today, state opposition leader Matthew Guy repeatedly called on Premier Daniel Andrews to resign over Labor's handling of law and order in Victoria.

"You are weak, and you should resign," Mr Guy yelled across the chamber.

But in a Facebook post published after the exchange, Mr Guy writes:

"Daniel Andrews needs to end his excuses and finally get tough on criminals. We need sentencing reform, bail reform and to fix the parole system now – not sometime in the future, not months or years in the future, but now."

Does that mean he is softening his call for Mr Andrews to resign?

In Parliament, Corrections Minister Gayle Tierney said there were up to 22 prisoners and people on parole who had been placed in an anti-radicalisation program run by the Islamic Council of Victoria.

Ms Tierney also said she had ordered Corrections Victoria to review Khayre's management in prison and his time on parole.

It is unclear how the long the program has been running for and whether Khayre was one of those in the program.