for a second shot to be fired through the shattered rear window and hitting Miller under his left arm and exiting through his hip. After shooting Miller, the gunman got out of the vehicle, walked over to Silk lying on the verge next to the passenger side of the Hyundai, and fired a third shot to the head, killing Silk instantly. Despite being wounded, Miller returned four shots at the Hyundai as it was speeding off. Upon hearing the shots over the two-way radio, Silk and Miller's fellow officers in Moorabbin 403 responded to the scene, arriving at 12:11am and finding Silk dead and Miller missing; despite being mortally wounded, Miller had managed to walk the short distance back to the restaurant before collapsing on the verge, where he was found by a uniformed officer, still alive. As Senior Constable Miller was loaded into the ambulance, he told responding officers that he and Sergeant Silk had been shot by two gunmen. Miller was taken to Monash Medical Centre and later died of his injuries at 4:39am. Operation Lorimer The police team investigating the murders was code-named Operation Lorimer. Victorian Police Minister Andre Haermeyer announced a A$500,000 reward for information about the murders, and later said he would consider increasing the reward. Evidence left at the scene of the crime included pieces of glass, suspected to be from the getaway car used by the killers. Police tested this glass and discovered it came from a late model Hyundai hatchback. After extensive investigations, which took the team to the Hyundai factory in South Korea to obtain vital prosecution evidence, police narrowed down the exact make and model of the vehicle involved in the shootings from the glass samples. The vehicle was registered to the daughter of known criminal Bandali Debs. Police also recovered three spent bullet casings matching those fired from Miller's service revolver, indicating Miller's fourth shot likely hit the gunmen's car. Ballistics testing on the bullets recovered from the bodies of Silk and Miller revealed that two different firearms were used in the murders. Ballistics also revealed the bullets matched those recovered from the scenes of the armed robberies that Silk and Miller were investigating as part of Operation Hamada. Arrests On 24 September 2001, Bandali Debs, a father of five from Narre Warren, Victoria, and Jason Joseph Roberts, boyfriend of Debs' daughter, an apprentice builder, of Cranbourne, Victoria, faced