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A man is in hospital with serious injuries after being slashed with a machete in Melbourne’s outer east early Tuesday morning.
It is the third incident involving a machete in the city in five days.
Police said a 64-year-old was injured after a group of teenagers went to his house in Croydon twice in the same night. They first turned up at 10.30pm and threw rocks at his house.
After they returned and started throwing rocks again at 2.30am on Tuesday, the victim came out of his house and pursued them in his car, police said.
“[He] chased the group to Manchester Road in Mooroolbark, where an altercation occurred.
A member of the group used a machete to slash the victim before fleeing,” police said in a statement.
“The 64-year-old male victim attended hospital with serious injuries, and police were called.”
Police say the teenagers and the man didn’t know each other before the incident. Officers are calling for anyone with information or footage relating to the incident to contact Crime Stoppers.
The Mooroolbark incident comes just days after a 22-year-old man died in Mernda, in Melbourne’s outer north, on Friday night. Police allege a group of teenagers slashed him with a machete as he tried to stop them from robbing a 14-year-old-boy near Mernda train station.
The 14-year-old’s family released a statement thanking the late good Samaritan on Tuesday.
On Monday, a man was hospitalised after another man allegedly attacked him with a machete, leaving blood on the stairs of a building on Queen Street in Melbourne’s CBD. The injured man has since been discharged from Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Police also detained a gang of teenage boys in the CBD on Friday night, after allegedly seizing blades including a meat cleaver and a carving knife from them as they attended the first night of the Moomba Festival.
It has been illegal to own or sell a machete in Victoria since September 1, 2025, while laws to sentence people as young as 14 as adults if they commit violent crimes came into effect February 27.
Both laws were prompted by Victoria’s spate of knife crime.
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