What we know today about Wieambilla police massacre

The faces of all three of the Train gunmen can be revealed as investigators in NSW and Queensland piece together the dynamic between Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey— and unravel the bizarre conspiracy plots that led to the massacre of six people.

Investigators across NSW and Queensland are piecing together a bizarre web of paranoid conspiracy plots in a bid to unravel the reasons behind a once respected school principal’s descent into madness and the massacre of six people.

Here’s the latest on Tuesday

■Author Ronald Train lost his two sons and daughter-in-law Stacey, killed in a hail of bullets after a siege in which they took the lives of two young Queensland Police constables and a good Samaritan neighbour. Now a bizarre web of conspiracy theories and anti-police rantings are being uncovered.

Ronald Train said he lost two son after a siege at Wieambilla.

■The “murderous trio”, Nathaniel Train, his brother Gareth and sister-in-law Stacey were reportedly locked in a bizarre “love tryst”, as claims today emerged the brothers had been taking ice.

■ The father of the Train brothers revealed the pair had been estranged from him for more than 20 years, and that Nathaniel was once married to Stacey. The couple had two children together before Stacey left him for Gareth.

Nathaniel Train pictured with Stacey Train. Picture: A Current Affair

Gareth Train. Picture: A Current Affair/ Channel 9

■ Stacey Train, once a teacher like Nathaniel, was revealed to have shared similar views on conspiracy theories to Gareth, and quit her teaching job after refusing to get a Covid vaccine.

Queensland Police officers assemble outside the station where the murdered officers worked. Picture David Clark NCA/Newswire

■Disturbing police radio captured the moment the cop killers were gunned down in the firefight. Officers Arnold and McCrow had been killed by a wall of bullets. Colleagues Constable Randall Kirk had suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and Constable Keely Brough was hunted through bushland by the gunmen as they lit a fire in a bid to smoke her out.

■One of officers who escaped with his life from the horrific police shooting on the Darling Downs on Monday has broken his silence from his hospital bed.

Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll at Chinchilla Police Station where the murdered officers worked. Picture David Clark NCA/Newswire

The events as they unfolded on Monday

■ Four policewere ambushed with a hail of bullets after they jumped the fence of a Wiambilla property about 4:40pm on Monday to do a welfare check on missing NSW man Nathaniel Train. One officer was shot and made it back to his car while another fled into dense bushland. Two police hit during the initial barrage of bullets were executed where they fell.

■ The slain police officers were Constable Rachel McCrow, 26 and Constable Matthew Arnold, 29. The two other police, Constable Keely Brough and Constable Randall Kirk, both aged 28, were chased but managed to escape the shootout 300 kilometres west of Brisbane.

■ The four officers were sent in at the request of NSW Police, as Nathaniel had been reported missing in Walgett by his wife. They ‘had no chance’ to defend themselves or fight back, according to police officials- with a probe now underway into why no-one realised the danger the young constables were unwittingly sent into.

Murder house.... Police at the scene of the killings on Tuesday. Picture: Nine News

■Constable Brough, a police officer for just eight weeks, sent text messages to loved ones as the killers started a fire to ‘smoke her out of hiding’.

■Suspects Gareth Train, his brother Nathaniel, a former school principal who had been the subject of a missing persons notice by NSW Police, and Gareth’s wife Stacey Train – a former teacher – were killed in a subsequent police firefight.

Suspect Nathaniel Train.

■Neighbour Alan Dare was also shot in the back and killed by the armed offenders after he came out to investigate the fire.

■Gareth Train regularly posted bizarre conspiracy theories online, including that the Port Arthur massacre was an inside job and Princess Diana was killed in a ‘blood sacrifice’.

■His brother Nathaniel, a disgruntled Walgett school principal, had contacted NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham concerned about a case of NAPLAN cheating he thought the department bureaucrats “did nothing about”.

■ Disturbing police radio has captured the moment the three cop killers were gunned down in a firefight with specialist police in rural Queensland on Monday.

■ The Trains’ father, retired Christian pastor Ronald Train, spoke for the first time on Tuesday: “I have lost two children,” he said. It has since been revealed Nathaniel had not spoken to his father in 20 years.

The remote area remains the scene of a huge police operation. Picture: Harry Clarke/Country Caller

Horror house.... The property where two police officers were gunned down.

■ The rural property where the bloodletting occurred was bought in 2015 for $95,000. Gareth Train and his wife Stacey were the owners of the 44 hectare property on Wains Rd, Wieambilla.

■ Mourners have laid flowers outside the Chinchilla and Tara police stations, and online tributes have been posted by the loved ones of Constable McCrow and Constable Arnold.

■ QLD Police are looking into whether the attack was a targeted ambush and what information was provided to the officers who went to check on the missing man, Nathaniel Train. QPS Commissioner Katrina Carroll said: “There will be a thorough investigation.”