Emergency services swarm after three hurt in alleged machete attack

Police have laid charges against a man after three people were injured when they were allegedly attacked by the man wielding a machete in a Central Queensland street.

Three people were allegedly attacked by a man with a machete in Berserker this morning. Picture: Geordi Offord

Police have laid charges against a 61-year-old Berserker man after three people were injured when they were allegedly attacked by the man wielding a machete in a Central Queensland street.

A Queensland Police Service spokesman said they responded to reports of a disturbance on Leamington St, Berserker, on Friday about 11.30am.

The man has been charged with one count each of going armed so as to cause fear, assault occasioning bodily harm, serious assault and threatening violence.

The man was charged with serious assault because one of the alleged victims was over 60.

He is due to appear in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on Monday.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said one person at the residence on Leamington St, Berserker, suffered a laceration, understood to be to the neck, from the alleged assault. Two others were also injured.

A neighbour on Friday gave a dramatic account to this publication.

Local resident Linda Reynolds had just finished having lunch with her granddaughter Reagan when the drama unfolded.

Ms Reynolds said the man had been walking around the street holding a puppy in one hand.

Leamington St resident Linda Reynolds and her granddaughter Reagan.

But things took a turn when her granddaughter started walking back to work down the street.

“She was trying to go back to her workplace and next minute she’s banging and screaming at the door yelling ‘grandma, grandma let me in’,” Ms Reynolds said.

Ms Reynolds said she then called triple-0.

She said the man then went down another street before police arrived.

Ms Reynolds said the street was a busy thoroughfare which connected Ford St with Berserker St.

But while a lot of people walked the street and drove on it, she said she hadn’t experienced much crime in the area.

At the end of the street is a girl guides hall where a homeschooling group happens once a week.

About 7000 people live in the North Rockhampton suburb of Berserker, close to the Fitzroy River and 6km from the town‘s CBD.

It is home to what police described as “clusters” of crimes, with 417 offences committed since June 8, 2023, according to the Queensland Police Service crime map. Of those, there have been 48 were assaults.