Berserker accused shooter Thomas Craig Grundy’s meth charge

A Qld roofer charged over two shootings got a surprise when he turned up to court to find extra charges were waiting while he could not access his money.

Police at the scene where shots were fired on Peter Street, Berserker, on March 5, 2025 and a man was injured.

One of the men accused of multiple shootings at a Rockhampton home was visibly surprised to hear of new charges against him while lawyers advised they were no longer representing him in court this week.

Thomas Craig Grundy, 22, was charged with multiple offences from the Peter Street, Berserker, shootings in February and March when he was arrested on March 6.

His co-accused in the shootings is fellow roofer Zac Anthony Warren-Rourke, 22.

The tradesmen are accused of carrying out two shootings where one man sustained a gunshot wound to an arm as he fled for cover in the first incident, and the other man was shot in the leg in the second.

Mr Grundy’s charges were one count each of one count of acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm and threatening violence by discharge firearm or other act along with two counts of enter dwelling and commit.

Mr Warren-Rourke of Koongal has been charged with one count each of attempted murder and acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm, along with two counts of enter dwelling and commit.

Zac Warren-Rourke.

The charges were laid following police investigations into two separate shootings and two robberies at a property in Peter St, Rockhampton between February 21 and March 6.

Mr Grundy appeared in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on Thursday.

His legal representatives informed the court they would no longer be acting for him.

Mr Grundy was then informed of the charges before the court that day - possessing methamphetamine and contravening an order about providing access to electronically stored information.

“I’m in custody for other charges,” Mr Grundy said.

“I didn’t even know about these charges.

“I’m in the middle of trying to sort out legal representation because I had my accounts frozen outside and that and they’re still frozen.”

He told the court he thought the accounts were under investigation.

Court documents viewed by The Morning Bulletin stated when police arrested Mr Grundy on March 6, after spotting him on Musgrave Street near a car wash and he attempted to run, he was found possessing about 23 grams of methamphetamine.

The documents stated proceedings were not underway at that time as further examinations were required.

The court documents included photographs of CCTV screenshots of the men allegedly carrying the weapons as they arrived at the shooting address on March 6.

Mr Warren-Rourke’s attempted murder charge stems from an alleged shooting on February 21 while one enter dwelling is from March 2 and the other charges are from March 5.

Police at the scene where shots were fired on Peter Street, Berserker, on March 5, 2025 and a man was injured.

According to the court documents, which include objection to bail affidavits, police allege victim Benjamin Sorensen had attended the Peter St address on February 21, 2025, to talk to the occupant, Adam Brown, about an incident that occurred earlier that day.

The documents allege Mr Warren-Rourke arrived soon after in a Ford Raptor, armed with a firearm, and shot at Mr Sorensen about five times, hitting him in the left arm as he ran for cover.

They also allege Mr Warren-Rourke immediately left in the Ford and Mr Sorensen was “assisted to his vehicle and drove” to Rockhampton Hospital.

Police responded to calls about shots being fired in Peter St and, according to the documents, found shell casings and blood at the scene.

They were then notified a person with a gunshot wound had attended the hospital.

According to the documents, witness accounts and CCTV evidence put Mr Warren-Rourke’s vehicle at Peter St at the time Mr Sorensen was shot.

On March 6, Rockhampton Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) Officer in Charge Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Kevin Mawdsley said it appeared there had been a “fallout” between the men.

However, he said the motivations of the alleged shooters were not clear.

Police at the scene where shots were fired on Peter Street, Berserker, on March 5, 2025 and a man was injured.

Police will allege Mr Grundy lived at the Peter St property in the lead-up to the alleged offences but had moved out since and that nine days after the first shooting Mr Warren-Rourke and Mr Grundy went back to the Peter St home about 7.30pm.

They also allege Mr Warren-Rourke was armed with a baseball bat and Mr Grundy with either a .22 or .23 calibre rifle.

According to the documents, Mr Grundy allegedly yelled at Mr Brown, claiming he’d been set up to be arrested for the February 21 shooting.

Police allege the pair then stole a speaker before Mr Warren-Rourke handed the baseball bat to Mr Grundy who struck Mr Brown on the left leg with it before leaving and allegedly returning three days later about 5.20am, entering the house on the lower level after smashing the glass sliding door with a whipper-snipper.

Mr Warren-Rourke and Mr Grundy trashed the house on this occasion, stealing a stone grinder and two CCTV security cameras and returned about 12.30pm with the former armed with a golf club and latter with two shortened firearms, the documents allege.

Photographs of CCTV screenshots attached to the court documents allegedly show the men carrying the weapons as they arrived.

According to the documents, Mr Grundy handed one of the guns to Mr Warren-Rourke who then went into the backyard while Mr Grundy remained in the front.

They allege Mr Warren-Rourke then shot Mr Brown as he stood on the second level at the back door throwing objects down at the accused to stop him from entering the house and that the bullet went through the floor of the house before hitting Mr Brown in the back left leg.

Both accused men then left Peter St in vehicles, according to the documents.

Police attended soon after and Mr Brown was taken to Rockhampton Hospital where it was determined that the “projectile” couldn’t be “removed by surgeons without causing further significant damage”.

Police raided three properties in Koongal on March 6 with two addresses noted in the court documents – one on Thozet Road where Mr Warren-Rourke lived and another on Elphinstone Street where Mr Grundy moved to after Peter St.

Mr Warren-Rourke was arrested at his home while Mr Grundy, according to the documents, was found on an unregistered and uninsured motorbike while not wearing a helmet at a car wash on Musgrave Street.

Police will allege Mr Grundy immediately attempted to flee from the specialist police who approached him before he was arrested.

Mr Warren-Rourke is the twin brother of Max, the young tradie who died in a catastrophic truck explosion which shut down the Bruce Highway for several days and left a deep crater in the road south of Gladstone on August 30 last year.

Zac Rourke (left) and Max.

Police allege Mr Grundy works for Mr Warren-Rourke and his father, Anthony, who both now run Max’s roofing company.

Max Rourke (left), Zac and their father Anthony.

Both accused men are originally from the Gold Coast with Zac and his twin brother relocating to Central Queensland in 2020 when demand for roofers spiked after a supercell storm with tennis-ball sized hail caused widespread damage at the Capricorn Coast and Rockhampton.

All of Mr Grundy’s charges will next be mentioned in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on April 22.

Mr Warren-Rourke’s charges will next be mentioned on May 15.

Both are remanded in custody.

Originally published as Berserker accused shooter Thomas Craig Grundy’s meth charge