Video captured arrest of US man, Donald Day Jnr wanted over Wieambilla shooting
Dramatic footage shows the moment 20 heavily armed FBI agents swarmed a fuel station in Arizona to arrest a man over his alleged connection to the Wieambilla terrorist attack.
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Footage has emerged from the United States of the dramatic arrest of Donald Day Jnr, the Arizonan man wanted for his alleged connection to the deadly Wieambilla terrorist attack in December 2022.
Mr Day was taken into custody by heavily armed FBI agents at a Chevron service station on Highway 260 at Heber-Overgaard on December 1.
A witness who spoke to the local broadcaster Arizona’s Family said she went to the fuel station for breakfast with a friend when agents swooped in.
“I was playing on my phone and she started yelling at me, ‘Don’t come in, don’t come in,’” the woman who wished to remain anonymous said.
“She was so alarmed.
“When I looked around I saw in excess, at least 20 FBI agents in full gear with side arms and everything.
“I really shocked me because we are a small community.”
Video provided to Arizona’s Family depicts a large number of FBI agents and police wearing tactical gear and carrying firearms.
The second count related to an alleged threat to kill the Director General of the World Health Organization in February 2023 on the video platform BitChute, and calling on others to join him.
Each count carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and up to three years of supervised release.
Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, and Constable Rachel McCrow, 29, were killed by Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train when they walked on to the family’s property at 251 Wains Road Wieambilla on December 12, 2022.
Constable Randall Kirk and Constable Keely Brough escaped.
Neighbour Alan Dare and Vic Lewis came to investigate a fire that had started on the property and Mr Darre was shot and killed.
Police are treating the incident as a religiously motivated terrorist attack.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Queensland Police Service Assistant Commissioner Cheryl Scanlon said QPS officers and FBI agents raided an isolated property about 30km north of Heber-Overgaard, Arizona on December 1.
They arrested the 58-year-old man, Donald Day Jnr at the service station, near this property.
“Proactive work has been undertaken by the QPS and the FBI since the religiously motivated terrorist attack on December 12, 2022, at Wieambilla which identified information relating to a US national,” she said.
“The ongoing investigation, as outlined in February this year, was to identify any residual threats posed to the Australia and Queensland community as result of this religiously motivated terrorist attack.
“This past week, investigator from the QPS Ethical Standard Command and Counter Terrorism Command travelled to Arizona where they joined the FBI
“Two indictments were issue by a Grand Jury for Interstate Threats under United States Code Section 875c.
“One threat was made in relation to comments posted online in December 2022, inciting violence in relation to the event at Wieambilla.”
The charges relate to comments and messages shared between Gareth and Stacey Train, and the 58-year-old US man in the lead up to the terrorist attack .
“They were motivated by as Christian Extremist Ideology and subscribe to the broad Christian belief system known as premillennialism,” Ms Scanlon said.
“The motivation of the US national remains under investigation.
Police alleged that Garth began following the 58-years-old man’s YouTube account around May 2020 and the pair started commenting directly in May 2021
“We have evidence to show the Train subsequently accessed an older YouTube account created by the same man in 2014 and viewed that content,” Ms Scanlon said.
“Between May 2021 and December 2022, the man repeatedly sent messages containing Christian end-of-days ideology to Garth and then Stacy,”
The man fronted court in Tucson, Arizona early Wednesday morning, Australian time and is yet to enter a plea to the charges.
Originally published as Video captured arrest of US man, Donald Day Jnr wanted over Wieambilla shooting
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