Darwin shooting
A mass shooting shaped the AFP's new top cop - but can he deliver?
Two unrelated events of June 4, one in wintry Canberra and the other in dry-season Darwin, could converge to define new AFP chief Reece Kershaw's career.
- Zach Hope
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Police raid rural property over Darwin shooting that killed four
Police have raided a rural property on the outskirts of Darwin in connection to the horror mass shooting that killed four last month.
- Yan Zhuang
- Analysis
- Crime
Darwin's ease broken by gun rampage
With the first blasts of an illegal pump-action shotgun, Darwin’s ease was broken.
- Zach Hope
'I'm very sorry': Alleged Darwin shooter apologises, asks for help in court
The man accused of killing four people in an hour-long shooting spree through Darwin this week has told a court he is 'very sorry about what’s happened'.
- Zach Hope and Simone Fox Koob
Darwin community comes together in grief after mass shooting
Darwin rebuilt after 1942. It rebuilt again after Cyclone Tracy in 1974. On Thursday night it began to rebuild again, but in its sense of community.
- Zach Hope
Alleged Darwin shooter charged with murder as it emerges security guard may have saved lives
The final act of one of the four men killed in Monday’s mass shooting in Darwin may have saved others from the same fate.
- Zach Hope and Simone Fox Koob
Darwin alleged shooter was hunting for 'Alex' over 'secret relationship'
It's believed Ben Hoffmann, the suspected gunman in Tuesday's mass shooting, was searching for a man called Alex who he believed had been conducting a secret relationship with his girlfriend.
- Zach Hope and Simone Fox Koob
Darwin mass shooting suspect a parolee with a history of violence
Northern Territory police face questions as to how 45-year-old Ben Hoffmann had been given the time and space to kill four men and badly wound a woman in one of Australia’s worst killing sprees since Port Arthur.
- Zach Hope
'Sad, shocking news': Victim of Darwin shooting identified
An IT specialist from Lebanon who had been studying in Darwin for almost a decade has been identified as one of the four men killed during a mass shooting in the city.
- Simone Fox Koob
Did gun laws fail in the Northern Territory?
Despite the whittling away of Australia's gun laws since the national firearms agreement, they are still the best in the world, an expert says.
- Nick O'Malley
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