Two people have died under suspicious circumstances after their bodies were found hours apart in Melbourne on Friday. A woman ...

An inquest is hearing more evidence about the death of Marius Ciolac, who was fatally shot at a police station.

A man was found critically injured near a freeway only hours after a woman was found dead inside a home, with the pair believed to have known one another.

Police are investigating the death of a woman in Ascot Vale and a subsequent fatal freeway incident at Little River.

Footage shows a man with a knife smashing the glass doors of a police station, before he was shot dead by armed police.

A woman was found dead inside a unit at Ascot Vale before a man known to her died at Little River less than two hours later.