Bourke Avenue crash, Zain Khan: Accused killer’s mom reveals son’s mysterious previous after he was charged over Melbourne rampage

The accused Bourke Avenue killer’s mom has revealed how her son has struggled with psychological sickness and stopped taking his medicine two months earlier than allegedly finishing up a lethal rampage.

Zain Khan, 26, allegedly drove his mom’s white Toyota Aurion down by means of Melbourne‘s CBD, ploughing into bystanders before colliding with two other vehicles at about 6.20pm on Friday.

Among the many alleged victims was a 76-year-old man from Brunswick, who died when Khan’s automobile collided along with his Hyundai on the intersection of Bourke and Russell Avenue.

Two girls stay in hospital with head accidents and damaged bones, whereas one other man is recovering with a damaged pelvis and a concussion. 

Khan’s mom, who didn’t need to be recognized, stated her son was ‘a humble son’ and a ‘good child’ who turned ‘sick’. 

Khan’s mom, who didn’t need to be recognized, stated her son was ‘a humble son’ and a ‘good child’ who turned ‘sick’ after he stopped taking essential medicine. Pictured: Zain Khan

Khan, 26, was charged with one rely of homicide, three counts of tried homicide, three counts of deliberately trigger critical damage and two counts of conduct endangering life over the Bourke Avenue chaos that unfolded on Friday

‘I do not imagine that he would need to damage individuals, he wasn’t like that,’ she instructed 7News.

She stated her son had stopped taking his anti-psychotic medicine two months in the past, though he continued taking different temper stabilisers.

‘He was not [a] terrorist, he has received psychological well being points,’ she stated.

Khan’s household declare he was ‘regular’ when taking injections for an necessary medicine, however when he stopped them, he wished to maneuver out.

He was employed at a café at Melbourne’s Sunshine public hospital, roughly 20km west of Bourke Avenue, and labored the day of the tragedy. 

However Khan didn’t full his shift on Friday and as a substitute left work early.

Video of Khan has additionally emerged on-line with him sitting in a automobile intensely staring into the digicam lens. Others clips present Khan dancing by himself.

After the horror scenes on Friday night Khan was filmed bizarrely mendacity on the windscreen of his mom’s automobile, dressed head to toe in white.

Two cops dragging him off the Toyota, arresting and restraining him, then marching him away from shocked onlookers.

Victoria Police alleged Khan accelerated after allegedly mowing down three pedestrians at a tram cease on the nook of Bourke and Swanston Streets.

It’s understood Khan was ‘regular’ when taking injections for an necessary medicine, however when he stopped them, he wished to maneuver out from ‘the home’

Eerie footage exhibits Khan, wearing all-white, sitting on the roof of the Toyota for a number of minutes earlier than cops pulled him down and arrested him (pictured)

It’s understood Khan, from Melton West 40km from Melbourne, was unable to adequately reply questions from police and was taken to hospital.

He was launched on Saturday night and confronted a late-night courtroom listening to at which he was charged with 10 offences together with homicide and tried homicide.

He additionally faces three counts of deliberately trigger critical damage and two counts of conduct endangering life.

Police confirmed Khan is understood to have a historical past of psychological sickness and have formally dominated out terrorism as a possible motive.