A 24-YEAR-OLD Footscray man has been arrested after a police shooting early on Monday morning in which two officers shot at a stolen car that was speeding towards them.
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The drama occurred at 12.40am in Maribyrnong, in the inner west, after two Footscray officers checked the vehicle's registration because it was driving down Chifley Drive, a dead-end road.
Assistant Commissioner Andrew Crisp said police had shot ''a number of rounds'' at the vehicle as it drove at them.
A short time later, two women arrived at the Western Hospital, one with a gunshot wound to her leg. The man driving the car remained at large.
At 8.10pm on Monday, Special Operations Group members arrested a man at a Melton address in Melbourne's west. He is helping police with inquiries.
BRIDIE SMITH
