Wieambilla shootings | |
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Part of Terrorism in Australia | |
![]() Constable Matthew Arnold and Constable Rachel McCrow, the officers killed in the shootings | |
Location | 251 Wains Road, Wieambilla, Queensland, Australia |
Coordinates | 27°01′51″S 150°29′31″E / 27.030707°S 150.491924°E |
Date | 12 December 2022 4:37 p.m. – 10:39 p.m. (AEST, UTC+10:00) |
Target | Queensland police |
Attack type | Ambush, mass shooting, shootout, triple-murder, arson |
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Deaths | 6 (2 police officers, 1 neighbour, 3 perpetrators) |
Injured | 1 (police officer) |
Victims | Constable Matthew Arnold Constable Rachel McCrow Alan Dare |
Perpetrators | Nathaniel Train Gareth Train Stacey Train |
Motive | Christian fundamentalism |
Coroner | Terry Ryan |
The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland. Three residents, brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train, and Gareth's wife, Stacey Train, were subsequently shot and killed by Queensland Police. The shootings were labelled as Australia's first fundamentalist Christian terrorist attack.[3]
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