Dezi Freeman LIVE updates: Fugitive is slammed as a coward after cops gunned him down in a shipping container

Fugitive Dezi Freeman has been shot dead by heavily-armed police in northeast Victoria after seven months on the run.

Freeman, 56, was shot by officers shortly after 8.30am after he was reportedly found in a shipping container near Walwa, 188km northeast of Porepunkah, where he went missing on August 26.

Daily Mail understand police tried to negotiate with the sovereign citizen before he was killed.

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