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In the early hours of October 12, 1988, two Victoria police officers were murdered on Walsh Street in South Yarra, Melbourne, in a crime which became known as the Walsh Street police shootings. Young constables Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre had called to investigate a Holden Commodore abandoned in Walsh Street. While examining the vehicle, the officers were ambushed by armed offenders. Constable Tynan was cut down with a shotgun while sitting in the car. Constable Eyre, despite suffering serious injuries, is thought to have struggled with the attacker until another person approached him from behind, managed to remove his service revolver from its holster and shoot him in the head with it. Police believed members of a Melbourne armed robbery gang had organised the murders as a revenge attack in response to the high number of fatal shootings of suspects by police. The police set up an investigation into the murders, known as the Ty-Eyre Task Force, which was the biggest investigation Victoria Police had ever undertaken at the time. Four men, Victor Peirce, Trevor Pettingill, Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy were charged with murder and later acquitted by a jury in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Two other suspects, Jedd Houghton and Gary Abdallah, were shot and killed by Victoria Police before being brought to trial. In 2005, Wendy Peirce, widow of accused Victor Peirce, gave an interview to the media detailing how her late husband had planned and carried out the murders and was actually guilty as charged. 


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