Wieambilla police massacre victim Alan Dare recorded his own death on mobile phone

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Shocking footage that will be vital at the inquest into Queensland’s deadliest police massacre details the moment good Samaritan Alan Dare arrives to help his neighbours, only to be fatally shot by a camouflaged gunman lying in wait seconds later, his devastated widow has revealed.

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The never before seen footage, which Alan’s wife Kerry Dare has watched “hundreds” of times, captures the gunman “lining Al up” while sitting in a ute before the sound of the fatal gunshot is heard.

Soon after, with Alan’s phone beside him, still recording, Mrs Dare said she could hear her hero take his final breaths.

Alan Dare was shot dead seconds after arriving at the scene of Queensland’s deadliest police massacre.

“It was Al in action mode … it was Al in hero mode … it was the best video I had ever seen, right until he got shot … but I heard him take his last breath … or at least his second last breath and I have been told that he died quickly so that’s a big relief to me,” Mrs Dare said.

Alan Dare recorded his own death on his mobile phone after seeing a police car on fire at the gate of his neighbours’ property at Wieambilla on December 12, 2022.

He and neighbour Victor Lewis arrived at the gate of the Wains Rd property about 5:30pm, an hour after Constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow had been murdered by Conspiracy theorists Gareth Train, wife Stacey and brother Nathaniel.

Constable Matthew Arnold

Constable Rachel McCrow

“(They) thought someone had stolen a car and set it on fire and left it here … they realised it was a police car, and then they noticed the man coming up that might have needed help and then he shot (Al),” Mrs Dare said.

“On the film, the man was over there next to that tree on the right (of the Trains’ property) … in a ute … he lined (Al) up on the door and he shot him in the chest …(Al) went down … I didn’t see him go down but I heard him.”

Since the shooting, Mrs Dare has been in regular contact with the “beautiful” Train children – Madelyn and Aidan and claims she now knows who killed the 58-year-old.

She said the children had apologised for the Wieambilla massacre.

“They don’t deserve any of this either,” Mrs Dare said.

Alan Dare’s widow Kerry Dare at her Wieambilla home. Picture: Liam Kidston

“Stacey didn’t shoot Al. Aidan is the one that told me who shot Al and it makes sense to me … it made me feel a lot better.”

The trio are believed to have lain in wait for police on the afternoon of December 12, 2022 and orchestrated a “religiously motivated terrorist attack” before being gunned down by specialist police about 8pm.

“Vic doesn’t talk much … he was very shaken. I don’t know … how do you feel when you have just escaped death but the man that you have just become friends with has been shot … knowing Vic I would say, he won’t let it show but I think he is alright … he has got (his wife) Gail to look after him,” Mrs Dare said.

The Trains’ Wieambilla house where Constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and good Samaritan Alan Dare, were gunned down in December last year. Picture: Liam Kidston

Constables Arnold and McCrow from Tara Police Station and Constables Randall Kirk and Keely Brough from Chinchilla Police Station went to the Wains property on December 12 in search of Nathaniel Train, who had been reported missing in New South Wales.

Constables Arnold and McCrow were fatally shot within minutes while Constables Kirk and Brough escaped the initial gunfire and called for back-up.

Constable Kirk shot at the offenders and then left the property in a police vehicle about 4.48pm while Constable Brough hid in nearby bushland for two hours.

During those two hours, shots were fired in her direction and fires lit around her.

The remaining police car was also set on fire.

Constable Brough was eventually rescued by a 16-strong extraction team who also recovered the bodies of the two murdered officers

Nathaniel Train

Stacey Train

But Mrs Dare told The Courier-Mail that her husband of 20 years had no idea two police officers had been murdered an hour earlier.

“I don’t understand how all those police officers walked all that way without noticing they were in danger … there’s batteries and glass in trees … what made them think they were bulletproof … this should never have happened,” she said.

In the last 12 months Wieambilla and nearby Tara have been rocked by Queensland’s deadliest police shooting, suspected arson and the ongoing threat of bushfires.

Asked whether she felt targeted, Mrs Dare said: “If I am, it’s just making me stronger”.

“(Wieambilla) is home … this was my dream … (Al) built this for me and then he got murdered,” she said.

Brothers Gareth (left) and Nathaniel Train

Mrs Dare’s grandchildren recently erected a memorial for their “poppy” outside the Train property with a “bucket of water and a bag of cement”.

“I say hello (to Al) every time I drive past, I don’t have a choice – what is really upsetting me is the explosion site that the police have left there for me to drive past all the time,” she said.

“Why? Why leave all this here … for my grandchildren to see … It is just inhumane.”

“Al would have laughed if you called him a good Samaritan … but yes he probably would help almost anyone … he did not give anybody the shirts off his back … he had three … and if he gave anybody a shirt it would be me.

“If that’s what (the community) got out of us walking into town and getting our bread and doing our shopping, that he was a great man … then yeah they got it right.”

The Train family’s property today, almost a year after the Wieambilla police massacre. Picture: Liam Kidston

Speaking about the inquest, planned for July 2024, Mrs Dare said: “It is all black and white. I want justice for Al.”

“If (The Train’s) wanted to shoot us, they would have shot us,” she said.

“They could have come over here and shot us at any time … just for targets … just for practice … that’s not what was going on.

“The couple that lived here for eight years were my neighbours … the man that came in, the brother … I don’t know … I don’t know what happened in the last 12 months of their lives.”

A memorial to Allan Dare at the gate to the Train family’s property. Picture: Liam Kidston

But Mrs Dare said “Wieambilla exists now”.

“If I’m going to bring my grandchildren here I need to know that they are safe, I don’t know how to do that … I can’t be safe myself … how can I keep them safe,” she said.

“Something good needs to be done with (the Trains’ property) … and I think their children would agree … not a training centre for the police, something for the community … something for people that are mourning or hurting.

“(Al) was trying to protect us … they said he was out here to help the police and he wasn’t … he would never have come out here if he knew people had been shot … never.”

In the aftermath of the shooting, Mrs Dare wished she had gone to investigate instead of Al.

“It would have been so much easier but that’s selfish. I’m here to continue what he was doing just in a different way … get up in the truck Kerry, that’s what he’d say.”