Zillmere gang fight: Grim search for weapons after deadly gang fight
Detectives and SES have returned to the scene of Sunday evening’s horrific brawl in a Brisbane park that cost one man his life and left several other men with critical injuries, searching for potential weapons in a bid to piece together the weekend’s horror events.
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Detectives and SES have returned to the scene of Sunday evening’s horrific brawl, that cost one man his life and left several other men with critical injuries.
Emergency services are combing through the sporting fields and surrounding scene at Zillmere for evidence – including any potential weapons – in a bid to piece together the weekend’s horror events.
Machetes and broken glass were used in the latest attack, according to shocked residents.
Girum Mekonnen, 19, was killed and 10 were injured, including two critically, after the fight at O’Callaghan Park on Sunday.
A man who was on Monday in an induced coma in a critical condition in the ICU has had his condition revised.
He has been moved into the RBH’s main recovery ward where he remains in a stable condition.
All patients are now stable.
The incident as left the surrounding community living in terror as police fear an escalating gang war between two African groups could lead to further retribution attacks.
A resident said the attack was a “pure massacre” and described it as a scene out of a movie.
“We heard screaming, just screaming, there were bodies everywhere,” the resident said, adding they no longer wanted to live in Zillmere.
Detective Superintendent Tony Fleming said the men involved in Sunday’s incident refused to speak to police and officers feared the two rival groups would take matters into their own hands.
“Retribution is not going to solve the problem,” Supt Fleming said.
