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SYDNEY - Reports that fugitive gunman Christopher Wayne Hudson is set to surrender to police were today being investigated by Victoria Police.
Hudson has not contacted police nor turned himself in, but efforts were continuing to find the 29-year-old bikie, wanted over Monday's deadly triple shooting in Melbourne's
CBD, police said.
A police spokesman said the reports came from various media outlets and that police were responding to them.
"He hasn't had any contact with us and we have no knowledge of him handing himself in," the spokesman said.
Earlier today a bomb exploded outside a Hells Angels bikie gang clubhouse in Sydney, police say.
Police said the explosion caused damage to the door and awning of the shopfront premises at Petersham, in the city's inner-west.
No one was inside the clubhouse at the time, and there were no injuries, police said.
The incident, which happened about midnight AEST (2am NZT), came as a national manhunt continued for Hells Angels gang member Christopher Wayne Hudson.
Hudson's distraught parents yesterday begged him to give himself up to avoid further bloodshed.
Hudson, named by police as suspect, remains at large two days after the fatal shooting of solicitor Brendan Keilar and the wounding of two other people in Melbourne's CBD.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon described Hudson as "out of control" after he allegedly shot dead Mr Keilar, 43, and wounded Dutch backpacker Paul De Waard, 25, who tried to stop the bikie attacking former Sydney model Kaera Douglas, who was also shot.
Ms Nixon said 29-year-old Hudson was "very dangerous" and was already wanted for a shooting incident in Campbellfield, in Melbourne's north, last Tuesday, when shots were fired into a trucking company's factory.
Hudson escaped after the city shooting.
Two cars allegedly linked to him were found -- a black NSW-registered Honda CRV in Flinders Lane, across from a hotel where he stayed on Saturday and Sunday night, possibly with Ms Douglas, and a black Mercedes sedan with Victorian registration at an apartment complex in Richmond.
His father, Terry Hudson, speaking to reporters on the Gold Coast yesterday, revealed his son delivered a message of love by phone an hour after he allegedly fled the scene of the shooting.
"When I last spoke to him I wasn't sure what had happened then. It was just after this (the shooting) and his only words to me were: 'Dad, I love you'," Mr Hudson said.
He pleaded with his son to hand himself to police.
"Please, Chris, if you are watching this, surrender peacefully to the nearest police station to avoid any further conflict or injury, including yourself," Mr Hudson said.
"We all love you, mate. Please give in peacefully."
Ms Nixon said police in all states were helping in the search for Hudson.
"Anybody who protects him is in grave risk themselves," she said.
"It is a matter that this person is clearly out of control, to do what he did in a street in Melbourne is just extraordinary."
The events leading to yesterday's shooting began with a violent row in a King Street nightclub between Hudson and another woman, believed to be his girlfriend, who was kicked and punched in the head.
News Limited and Fairfax newspapers named the other woman involved in the fracas as 24-year-old Autumn Daly-Holt.
Up to 15 minutes later, Hudson was seen dragging 24-year-old Ms Douglas away from a taxi at a city intersection.
Donna McGowan, who worked in a nearby office, said she rushed to the aid of Paul De Waard, 25, after he was shot in the chest and shoulder.
"I told him what my name was and I told him where I was from, and I just tried to talk to him and I was rubbing his face and his arm and giving him cuddles," Ms McGowan told Southern Cross Broadcasting.
"People were coming up and trying to take his backpack off and I told them to leave him alone because I knew he had been shot and I didn't want them to disturb the bullets until the ambulance got there," she said.
"He kept telling me his chest was hurting."
Mr De Waard was one of two men hailed for their bravery for assisting 24-year-old Kaera Douglas, who was being dragged by her hair by a man at a central Melbourne intersection on Monday, before the man opened fire.
Ms McGowan said Mr De Waard pleaded with her not to leave him.
"He didn't want me to leave him," she said. "I said 'do you want me to go?' and he said 'no'."
"The ambulance (officers) cut his top off and I saw the gunshot wounds," she said.
"There was a big one in his chest and one in his shoulder, but I didn't know if there were any others ... he was bleeding a lot and very scared."
"I thought if this guy passed away I didn't want him to die alone, I wanted someone to be with him."
Ms McGowan said she stayed with Mr De Waard until he was placed into an ambulance and transported to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
"I was lying next to him and I was talking to him while they (paramedics) were working on him."
Mr De Waard remained in a serious condition in the Royal Melbourne Hospital today.
His parents are expected to arrive in Australia today or tomorrow.
- AAP
