Victorian spoke of wanting police to kill him before he was shot dead, inquest hears

Coroner told Gabriel Messo attacked his mother before being shot three times by a police officer in 2020

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A Victorian man who was shot dead by police after violently assaulting his mother told a social worker that he wanted an officer to kill him so his pain would end, an inquest has heard.

Gabriel Messo, who had bipolar disorder, was shot in the chest three times by a police officer at John Coutts Reserve in Gladstone Park, in Melbourne's north, on 16 July 2020.

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