Police shooting: Gareth Train, wife Stacey posted video after shooting police

The couple who ambushed and shot dead two young constables and a neighbour on Monday posted an online rant hours later boasting about the killings.

A screengrab taken from footage of Gareth Train and Stacey Train posted to a now deleted YouTube channel.

The couple who ambushed and shot dead two young constables and a neighbour Monday posted an online message hours later boasting that they killed “these devils and demons”.

Gareth Train and his wife Stacey are in hiding and surrounded by police on their remote property at Wieambilla, 290km northwest of Brisbane, when they filmed and uploaded the message to a YouTube account.

“They came to kill us and we killed them. If you don’t defend yourself against these devils and demons … you’re a coward,” Gareth said.

“We’ll see you when we get home. We’ll see you at home, Don, love you,” his wife, veteran teacher, Stacey then adds.

The video was uploaded at 7.39pm, three hours after they ambushed four police who visited the property on a NSW-instigated missing person’s inquiry about Gareth Train’s brother, Nathaniel.

The trio were later shot dead around 10.30pm by police who stormed the property in armoured vehicles under the cover of darkness.

The account has since been deleted but the message, along with earlier posted videos remain on the internet

The images appear to be Gareth and Stacey Train who identify themselves as Daniel and Jane – which are their middle names – with the account titled “Mrs Yugi Girawil”

Queensland Police are investigating the possibility that the three shooters, who killed two young constables and a neighbour this week, were the source of information that lured the team of police to an ambush on their remote Queensland property.

Another 8-minute long video titled ‘Prepare for Battle and Be Strangers on the Earth’, which features Stacey Train reading aloud the apocalyptical Christian verse 2 Esdras 16:18-78, was also uploaded to the Youtube channel at 1.41pm on Monday.

Nathaniel Train was at the centre of the police check. Picture: Supplied

“For many of those who live on the earth shall perish by famine, and those who survived the famine shall die by the sword, and the dead shall be cast out like dung” she said.

“And there shall be no one to console them, for the earth shall be left desolate and its cities shall be demolished”.

In another two minute video uploaded on December 10, a man believed to be Gareth Train using a voice distortion filter can be heard reading aloud the missing person’s report about his younger brother and accomplice Nathaniel Train, before referring to Nathaniel as a “whistle-blower of high-level corruption”.

“I see there was no mention of this missing man being a whistle-blower of high-level corruption in the New South Wales Department of Education and its connections to New South Wales Police organised crime syndicate and its fixated person’s branch” he said.

“Or ASIO Officer (redacted), and the information that was passed to her as she was posing as an ABC reporter”.

In early 2022, Nathaniel Train contacted One Nation MP Mark Latham and submitted formal complaints to the NSW Ombudsman and the Department of Education in relation to a NAPLAN cheating scandal at Walgett Community College Primary School, where he was a principal.

Mr Train made allegations that students were being assisted by school staff in completing their NAPLAN tests.

In March, Mr Latham brought up some of Mr Train’s claims to parliament, where it was revealed that Mr Train had sent 16 emails to the New South Wales Department of Education secretary in the span of two weeks.

It was also revealed that Mr Train met with Director of Educational Leadership, Mr Luke Ballard in May 2021, they discussed some matters that train experienced during the course of his educational leadership.

Gareth Train, his wife Stacey and brother Nathaniel were already armed and in camouflage gear when the team of four police officers arrived at the bush property at Wieambilla, 290km northwest of Brisbane, around 4.30pm on Monday.

The police were met with gunfire as they walked up the driveway on a NSW-instigated missing person’s inquiry over Nathaniel Train, 46, a primary school principal who vanished in December, last year after reportedly suffering a heart attack months earlier.

Despite going missing he remained in contact with family until October 9, this year.

An aerial view of the scene at a property in Wieambilla where the shooting took place. Source: Nine

On December 8, NSW issued a public statement asking for assistance to locate Train saying: ”When he could not be contacted by family or friends, he was reported missing to officers from Central North Police District on Sunday (4 December 2022), who immediately commenced inquiries into his whereabouts”.

Sources have told The Australian that investigators are now looking at whether one of the three shooters called NSW police after the call for assistance informing them that Train was on the Queensland property.

“They are looking at this possibility that they called NSW police and told them they ‘think they know where he is’,’’ the source said.

“NSW police acted on that and asked their Queensland counterparts to look into it as part of a routine missing persons’ inquiry.

“He was the bait.”

Constable Rachel McCrow and Constable Matthew Arnold were shot dead on Monday.

NSW and Queensland police have declined to comment about the investigation.

Questions put to NSW police included who was the source of a tip that Train could be at the property.

“The questions you have asked are all relevant to the QPOL investigation,’’ a spokesman for NSW police said.

“The NSW Police Force will not be making any comment on this matter.”

Since the shooting, it has emerged that Gareth Train in 2020 had issued an ominous online warning against police entering his property among a series of posts on ­Citizens Initiated Referendums espousing bizarre conspiracy theories.

Gareth Train did not hold a gun licence but sources have told The Australian Nathaniel, a principal of a NSW primary school who had been reported missing in December last year, held a gun licence in NSW.

Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll this week said the four officers who went to the property “did not stand a chance”.