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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.
According to police, Terán, a protester, shot a state trooper and was killed by other officers. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] According to other protestors who witnessed the shooting, Teran was unarmed. [ 55 ] An independent autopsy ordered and released by Terán's family stated they were sitting cross-legged with their hands raised when they were shot 57 ...
Hostage taking, shooting 1 (+1 perpetrator) 3 2017 Brighton siege - Yacqub Khayre shot dead a Chinese-Australian receptionist in a serviced apartment complex and took a sex worker hostage in Brighton, Victoria. Police officers were involved in gunfight with Khayre who was shot dead and three officers wounded.
The Queen Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 8 December 1987 at Australia Post offices on 191 Queen Street in Melbourne, Victoria.. Frank Vitkovic, a former tennis player and law school withdrawee, entered the building on the pretext of visiting a friend, and opened fire on office workers at random with an illegally modified M1 carbine, killing eight and injuring five.
A man shot and killed two of his roommates before shooting his landlord to death at another location. The gunman was shot by police during a car chase and arrested. [30] 27 October 1992: Central Coast, New South Wales: 6 1 7: Central Coast massacre: A man armed with a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun shot and killed six people and wounded another. [31]
A police officer in Melbourne, Australia, was thrown into a parked car as he attempted to apprehend a suspected car thief in an SUV on August 14, according to local media.The driver of the alleged ...
17 November 1988 – Jedd Houghton shot and killed by police in a Bendigo caravan park. 9 April 1989 – Gary Abdallah is shot and killed by Victoria Police after pulling an imitation pistol on detectives. 26 March 1991 – four accused men found not guilty. 1 May 2002 – Victor Peirce shot and killed in Bay Street, Port Melbourne in drive-by ...
Hassan's 21-year-old younger brother, Ali Khalif Shire Ali, was arrested in November 2017 for planning to commit a mass shooting at Melbourne's New Year's Eve celebration. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Ali Khalif pled guilty to preparing a terrorist attack and in May 2020, he was sentenced to ten years jail, with a seven and a half years non-parole period. [ 17 ]