Conspiracy theories, religious rambles for over decade before cop killings

A US man – accused of inciting Christian extremists who killed Queensland police – posted conspiracy theories and religious rambles for over a decade before the tragedy.

A United States man – accused of inciting Christian extremists who committed the Wieambilla police murders – posted conspiracy theories and religious rambles for over a decade before the tragedy.

Donald Day, 58, was arrested in Arizona after a joint FBI and Queensland Police Service investigation and has been detained until his trial in February.

Donald Day. Picture: YouTube

Day is facing two interstate threat charges relating to comments he is alleged to have made in videos on December 16, 2022, days after the Wieambilla police shootings, and in February 2023 relating to the Director General of the World Health Organisation.

Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, and Constable Rachel McCrow, 29, were shot dead by Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train when they walked on to the property in the Western Downs on December 12 last year.

Neighbour Alan Dare was also killed. Police have said the Trains subscribed to Premillennialism and believed Christ would return to earth for a period of 1000 years after a period of widespread destruction.

Constable Rachel McCrow.

Constable Matthew Arnold who was shot at Wieambilla.

On Wednesday Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Cheryl Scanlon said Day repeatedly sent messages containing “Christian end of days ideology” to Gareth and Stacey between May 2021 and December.

While investigators have focused on specific posts he made after the death of the police officers, Day began posting conspiracy theory videos and longwinded posts on one of his Facebook accounts in 2010 and 2011, which aren’t part of the indictment.

He most recently used a separate account to post to the Heber Overgaard Community Page, claiming “Safeway is promoting the vaccine which has killed millions and have maimed millions more”.

The Train property in Wieambilla. Picture: Liam Kidston

Day also shared in a comment that he only ventured into town from his home once a month.

“I have tried on several occasions to raise the morale and the spirit of the local community, and have asked like-minded and right-minded folk to join in the fray against the political and corporate infection that has diseased the Rim, yet at any council meeting I’ve attended and spoke at, all that I encountered were the blank stares and glassy eyes of zombies,” Day’s account wrote on the community page in June this year, in response to someone who agreed with a post he wrote about the demise of Arizona.

“So, speaking for myself, I do care, friend; I care enough to risk my life to put a halt to the evil overtaking our small mountain communities, knowing that if I do not at least put forth the effort, then I am no better than the zombies I’ve tried to appeal to.

“On many occasions, I’ve tried to get the sheriff involved - I’ve tried to move him to honour his oath to defend and protect our constitutional rights, but he is a politician, for all intents and purposes.

Gareth and Stacey Train.

“So, no help there. And the people … well, they cannot be inconvenienced with protecting their rights, nor the future of their children or their grandchildren.

“What, I wonder, will the entirety of the Rim look like, once the food and fuel supplies abruptly end to our neck of the woods?” he wrote.

In 2011, Day made posts on another account linking to YouTube videos from other users including one titled “Total destruction of the western world” and another titled “World War III Destruction of the US”.

In one written post dated 2011, but edited in 2021, titled “madness on the horizon” he says “the Egyptians are showing us the way”.

“They are a primary example as to how we, here in Amerikkka, should approach the American government,” a post by Day on his account says.

Assistant Commissioner Cheryl Scanlon speaks during a press conference in relation to the arrest of a man in America over the police deaths at Wieambilla last year. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

“Before too long, the internet will be shut down as it were in Egypt, the cops will flee, and your neighbours will become your competitive enemies.

“The Egyptian people are a template of what’s to come in this country. They choose not to remain the vassal whores of this government.

“The American dream has turned into the American nightmare … enjoy it whilst ye may. The merry-go-round is grinding to a halt. Remember: weapons, water, warmth. All else is futile.”

In a further post Day encouraged people to “hold on to your bibles”.

The post makes remarks about people battling for their freedom and future.

“Will you sit by and allow a mere hand-full of men to rape, pillage and plunder your worth?” Day writes in the post.

Day goes on to write about the “demise of civilisation”.

Donald Day.

“Well, suffice it to say, as the day approaches the demise of civilisation, you will see my corpse swinging aloft from a tree’s branch, before you see me shuffling in a line waiting to be ground into soylent green,” he wrote.

“Washington D.C. is about a 36 hour drive. It would take less time for us to secure our future with enough of us. Enough of us. F**k it. I’m gonna go pack one and play with my dog. “ In an unsealed indictment released in the United States this week, it is alleged Donald Day Jr was active on YouTube under the name Geronimo’s Bones and social media platform BitChute with username WEAREALLDEADASF**K.

The indictment said Day posted videos of himself speaking on YouTube and comments since at least January 2022 and on BitChute since June 2022.

It said Gareth and Stacey and Day regularly commented on each other’s videos.

Gareth and Stacey posted a video online after murdering the officers on December 12, describing them as “devils and demons”.

Nathaniel Train pictured with Stacey Train, who later married his brother Gareth. Picture: A Current Affair

On December 16, Day posted a video on YouTube under Geronimo’s Bones, speaking about Gareth and Tracey killing “f***ing Devils”.

“Day then stated, “[w]ell, like my brother Daniel, like my sister Jane, it is no different for us,” the indictment said.

“The devils come for us, they f***ing die. It’s just that simple. We are free people, We are owned by no one.”

The indictment alleges those comments contained a threat to “injure the person of another, that is any law enforcement official who comes to Day’s residence, with the intent to communicate a true threat of violence and with recklessness”.

The second counts of threats relates to a video showing the Director General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Ghebreyesus speaking about the discovery of a new virus in Equatorial Guinea called Marburg, which he described as similar to Ebola with a high mortality rate.

The indictment alleges in February 2023 Day commented on a video posted on BitChute depicting the Director General of WHO while stating: “It is time to kill these monsters, and any who serve them. Where are my kind? Where are you? Am I the only one? F***in’ hell.”

The Train property. Picture: Liam Kidston