No where to run: New details of 13 seconds of mayhem in bikie Shane Bowden’s execution
Slain bikie Shane Bowden had no where to run. Shot 21 times while still strapped in his BMW, gruesome new details reveal the horrific extent of his injuries during the 13 second attack. SEE AUTOPSY MAP
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Slain bikie Shane Bowden had nowhere to run.
Still strapped into the driver seat of his girlfriend’s BMW coupe with the headlights on, he was ambushed in his garage by two heavily hooded men.
Supreme Court bail documents for one of his accused killers, Adam John Murphy, reveals twenty-one shots were fired at Bowden in 13 harrowing seconds.
The shocking moments, just four minutes after midnight on October 12, 2020, were captured on CCTV footage from down the street of his Pimpama home – vision later used to help track his alleged killers.
One of them allegedly fired 19 shots standing at the driver’s side door.
Queensland Police Service ballistics expert Ian Bruce indicated that a stray bullet found during the autopsy in Bowden’s underwear showed that murder weapon was a Croatian machine-pistol, and Agram model 1990.
The other alleged shooter landed just two of the fatal blows from the passenger side.
Police say it was just “by pure luck” an 11-year-old child sleeping in a bedroom immediately upstairs from the garage was not hit by a ricochet.
The two gunmen allegedly laid in wait just metres from Bowden’s home for 2.5 hours for him to return home from the gym when he was killed, police have alleged in court documents.
The right side of Bowden’s heavily-tattooed body bore the brunt of the attack, with his head and body peppered with bullets, the autopsy report in court documents reveal.
He had a total of 24 bullets and bullet fragments in his body as well as dozens of cuts, and glass embedded in his skin when the killers fired through the windscreen and the car windows.
The autopsy report filed in court reveal Bowden’s wounds included:
– Massive wounds to Bowden’s head, with a cluster around his right ear.
– A haemorrhaged neck.
– Damage to his heart along with his oesophagus, left lung, trachea and brain.
– Eight wounds on the right side of his face, with two metal fragments found in his right eye that was destroyed
– Bullets fractured his spine and ribs, and ripped through his spleen and left kidney.
– His right hand suffered eight wounds as he attempted to shield himself from the bullets
Another bullet was later found by forensics investigators embedded in a chamber of the car above the engine.
When police and emergency services arrived thirty minutes later, after neighbours called triple-zero, he was found slumped over his steering wheel.
Of the 21 bullets allegedly fired at Bowden, a single bullet fragment allegedly had DNA on it “matching the profile of” Torope, from Underwood, a lowly “prospect” member of the Mongols OMC, West City Chapter.
Police found the vital piece of evidence on one of the 17 spent bullets on the garage floor, lying next to the front driver’s side wheel of the black BMW coupe.
Police allege the second shooter was James Winston Mau’u, but court documents show his DNA was not found at the scene.