Bikie shot dead at property in Wakerley, Brisbane

A BIKIE associate has been shot dead after he ran at police with a knife after officers were called to his ex-girlfriend’s home in Brisbane’s east.

A BIKIE associate was shot dead after he ran at police with a knife after failing to break into his ex-girlfriend’s home in Brisbane’s east on Sunday.

Liam Scorsese, 31, was shot in a suburban street in Wakerley after officers arrived within minutes of a ­triple-0 call about 9.50am.

Liam Scorsese with girlfriend Chireez. Picture: Supplied/Facebook

Liam Scorsese outside the Southport watch house.

A woman identifying herself as Chireez last night said she was too distraught to comment but posted a tribute saying, “the pain is unbearable, the suffering unimaginable”.

“4 Years wasn’t enough, it wasn’t the life time u promised me or yourself, now your gone,” she wrote.

“May you fly with the angels, I will never let go bub I will never let go.”

Liam Scorsese died after being shot by Queensland police following a confrontation. Picture: Supplied Facebook

It is the second police shooting in 11 days, coming after a 16-year-old was shot following a domestic incident in Springfield on February 14.

Acting Chief Superintendent Mick Niland said police tried to use a taser on Scorsese but it failed. Officers retreated 50-60m but said he continued to confront them with the blade.

An officer fired two shots, Chief Supt Niland said. There were reports he yelled “shoot me” as he came at police.

Scorsese is a known Comanchero associate, police said.

“Police were in fear of their lives at the time,” Chief Supt Niland said. “The call to police was that he was armed, he was enraged and was at the address. The residents have telephoned triple-0.”

The Goulburn St residence where Liam Scorsese was shot. Picture: AAP/John Gass

Scorsese registered a business at the Goulburn St home with another man in 2016 and had previously listed the home as his bail address, according to sources.

He had celebrated his birthday a week ago, smiling in photos.

It’s unclear if he had rekindled his relationship with his ex-girlfriend.

Scorsese was jailed for three months in 2017 after a sickening attack on a bus driver in Surfers Paradise in September 2016. He also stabbed himself in the chest several times after a relationship breakdown in 2016. He is understood to have been released on parole in November.

The matter is under investigation by the Ethical Standards Command.

Police at the scene of a shooting at Goulburn St, Wakerley. Picture: Mark Cranitch

Scorsese’s Gold Coast lawyer Ashkan Tai called for a “transparent police investigation”.

“His family are obviously extremely distressed waking to this news but I would hope Ethical Standards investigate fairly the question of how a man can be shot dead by police, in suburbia, in the early hours, on a Sunday morning,” he said.

Police at the scene of the shooting at Goulburn St, Wakerley. Picture: Mark Cranitch

Mr Tai said Scorsese was not a member of any outlaw motorcycle club and was getting his life in order.

“He had enrolled in a barber’s course,” Mr Tai said. “Just because he got into one incident with the Comancheros, police label him. He wasn’t a bikie, he was just a man that was tattooed and had some bad friends.”