Court documents reveal violent ‘threats’ made by Australian cop-killers’ online instigator

The rantings of an Arizona conspiracy theorist – who allegedly helped incite Wieambilla police-killers Gareth and Stacey Train – have been revealed in new unsealed court documents.

An American conspiracy theorist allegedly threatened to kill any police officer who entered into his remote Arizona property, just days after his Queensland “brother” and “sister” Gareth and Stacey Train murdered two young constables at Wieambilla.

Donald Day Jr, 58, was arrested last Friday after an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Queensland Police Service into his involvement in the Wieambilla ambush on December 12 last year.

Mr Day has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is due to face trial in February next year before a jury.

At the off-grid southern Queensland property, Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train shot dead Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold, as well as neighbour Alan Dare, in a pre-planned attack police ruled was an act of Christian extremist domestic terrorism.

QPS assistant commissioner Cheryl Scanlon on Wednesday revealed Mr Day had been sending Gareth and Stacey “Christian end of days ideology” material between May 2021 until the fatal ambush, when the Trains were killed by specialist police.

In an indictment filed on November 29 in the US District Court of Arizona, seen by The Australian, Mr Day’s two charges of “interstate threats” are detailed. Each count carries a maximum sentence of five years’ jail, a fine of up to $250,000, and up to three years of supervised release.

The document reveals that on December 16, Mr Day allegedly threatened any law enforcement official who came to his residence, with a true threat of violence.

He allegedly posted on YouTube about the events at Wieambilla, just a few days before, referring to his “brother” Daniel and “sister” Jane – Gareth and Stacey Train’s middle names, that they used on social media.

“(W)ell, like my brother Daniel, like my sister Jane, it is no different for us. The devils come for us, they f..king die. It’s just that simple. We are free people, we are owned by no one,” he said on the YouTube video.

Stacey and Gareth Train posted a video on YouTube after the murders and before they were killed by police, in which they addressed “Don”. The clip was titled “Don’t Be Afraid” and ran for just 41 seconds.

A screen shot of Stacey and Gareth Train’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ YouTube video.

“(T)hey came to kill us, and we killed them. If you don’t defend yourself against these devils and demons, you’re a coward. We’ll see you when we get home. We’ll see you at home, Don. Love you.”

Soon after, Mr Day allegedly posted a comment on the Trains’ video, warning “I tell you, family, that those bastards will regret that they ever f..ked with us”.

Mr Day and the Trains shared the extremist Christian ideology of premillennialism and believed the “end of days” was imminent.

The Arizona local has also been charged with a second count of making an interstate threat of violence, this time against World Health Organisation director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The court documents reveal that on a second social media platform, called BitChute, under the username “WEAREALLDEADASF-K,” Mr Day commented under a video of the WHO boss speaking about the discovery of a new virus in Equatorial Guinea, which he had described as similar to Ebola but with no approved vaccines.

Mr Day allegedly commented: “It is time to kill these monsters, and any who serve them. Where are my kind? Where are you? Am I the only one? F..kin’ hell!”

The indictment alleges that “beginning on or before January 2022 and continuing to on or after February 2023, Day engaged in a course of conduct demonstrating a desire to incite violence and threaten a variety of group and individuals including law enforcement and government authorities”.

“Day previously posted on BitChute a statement, ‘I’m an x-con, who’s armed to the teeth’. Day previously acknowledged on YouTube that he owned firearms, (including) a rifle and a shotgun.”

A renewed push for a national firearms register – sparked by the Wieambilla shootings – saw national cabinet on Wednesday finally ink a deal to implement a real-time digital database.