Burleigh Heads police shooting: Armed man shot after making ‘threats to officers’
Pictures have emerged of the moments after a man in his thirties was shot by police at Burleigh Heads on Saturday night. WARNING – GRAPHIC.
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Updated, 6.30am Sunday: Police say they were forced to shoot an armed man at Burleigh Heads overnight after he made “threats to officers”.
Police descended upon Gardenia Grove, Burleigh Heads about 7.30pm Saturday in response to reports of an “armed man making threats,” Queensland Police Service said in a statement.
“Upon arrival, the armed man made threats to officers and was subsequently shot by police,” the statement read.
“Medical assistance was immediately rendered to the man and he was transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
“A crime scene was declared, and police investigations are continuing.
“This matter is under investigation by Ethical Standards Command, with the investigation subject to oversight by the Crime and Corruption Commission.”
In a brief statement, Queensland Ambulance Service said they transported a male patient with a “potentially life-threatening wound to his leg” at about 7.40pm.
Images shared with this masthead depicts a shoeless man lying on the ground with his leg smeared in blood.
An eyewitness told this masthead the man threatened police with a knife.
“Last night my partner and I were just in the living room across the road from where the incident took place, in a big apartment block, we’re like 25 levels up and we had the door open and heard all the commotion,” she said.
“He was just screaming, yelling, swearing, and then a few moments later he came out with a chainsaw and was just kind of doing laps around the frontyard and up and down the street.
“Then he went back inside the house and it went quiet for a little while, that’s when we heard the sirens and all the cops rocked up.
“They’ve gone inside to try and talk with him, and he’s come out with a massive knife and charged at one of the police officers, and that’s when he got shot.”
A young girl who was at McDonald’s across the Gold Coast Hwy when the shooting occurred also shared her account.
“We were just across the road at Macca’s and we saw all these cops pull up, so we came to take a look,” she said.
“We’ve been here an hour, the guy’s gone [in an ambulance].”
Armed man shot by police after Gold Coast incident
Initial, 10pm Saturday: A man has been shot by police following an incident in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast.
About 7.30pm police were called to reports of an armed man in his 30s making threats at a residence in Gardenia Grove.
The man was immediately given medical assistance.
A Queensland Police Service spokesman said the man was transported to Gold Coast
University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police remained at the scene at the time of writing.
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