Vic man to front court over triple murder

A man will front court charged with murder over the shooting deaths of three members of one family in a small Victorian town.

Wedderburn man Ian Francis Jamieson, 63, was charged with three counts of murder on Thursday night.

He faced an out-of-sessions hearing at Bendigo police station about 10pm (AEDT) and was remanded in custody.

Peter Lockhart and his wife Mary Lockhart, aged in their 70s, along with Mrs Lockhart's son, 48-year-old Greg Holmes, were killed in the incident.

Police responding to a dispute on Wednesday night found the body of Mr Holmes in a paddock at a property near Wedderburn in north-west Victoria.

The officers then heard gunshots from an adjoining property across the road, and retreated and cordoned off the area before a lengthy negotiation ended in surrender.

A second body was found in a driveway and the third at the rear entrance to a home.

The incident happened 2km from Wedderburn, a town that's home to 1000 people, in a small settlement called Logan.

Jamieson will appear in Bendigo Magistrates Court on Friday.