Bogie shooting: Accused mass shooter identified as reason for neighbour war revealed

The landowner accused of an execution-style killing of three neighbours at a remote Queensland cattle property can be revealed, as details of a years-long war come to light.

A landowner accused of an execution-style killing that wiped out three members of the same family at a remote Queensland cattle property can be revealed as details of a years-long dispute over a fence boundary line come to light.

Police charged long-term Bogie resident Darryl Young, who owns a property on Shannonvale Rd that is now the subject of a triple homicide, with three counts of murder after arresting him at his home.

Married couple Mervyn, 71, and Maree, 59, Schwarz, and their son Graham Tighe, 35, were fatally shot early on Thursday morning.

Darryl Young

Police will allege Mr Young had invited the family to a discussion at their property lines in Bogie, near Bowen in the Whitsundays region at 9am on Thursday.

Police will allege they were shot with a rifle at close range.

Ross Tighe, Graham’s brother and Maree’s son, was also shot in the stomach but fled the deadly scene, which was at the front gate of Mr Young’s home, and drove 40km in a red ute before phoning for help.

Bogie surviving shooting victim Ross Tighe.

He underwent emergency surgery on Thursday night after being flown to Mackay Base Hospital.

Greg Austen, the brother-in-law of Maree, said the neighbours had been warring over where the boundary should be between their two farms for years.

He said the previous owners had also been in dispute with Mr Young.

Graham Tighe, 35, was killed on a property at Bogie.

“It (the dispute) has been going on for years, even with the people who were there before them,” Mr Austen told News Corp Australia.

“You don’t really take much notice for those things and hope they sort themselves out.”

Darryl Young's property.

Maree and Merv Schwarz died in the shooting.

He added ‘one bloke thought it was put up in the wrong place, it’s just ridiculous’.

Police locked down a massive area of farmland during a frantic search for the gunman on Thursday, covering a large amount of ground over many hours to find the crime scene.

A police car on Sutherland Road, Bogie. The area was closed by police after the shooting. Photo: Alana Tacey

Mr Young, 59, was charged with three counts of murder on Friday afternoon.

He will appear in the Proserpine Magistrates Court on Monday, August 8.

Detective inspector Tom Armitt confirmed Mr Young was known to police and would be the only person charged over this horror incident.

Police found the three deceased in the same location.

Mr Young is a longstanding resident of the Bogie area and the family is well known across Central Queensland, having owned properties as far south as the Gladstone region.

The scene of the fatal shooting.

Neighbours at a remote property owned by Young outside Bowen said he lives there with his daughter, aged in her 20s.

The property is littered with rusty vehicles and farm machinery.

The fence outside Darryl Young’s property.

A “legal notice” posted on a fence warned entry to the property was by “invitation only” and cautioned against trespassing by “men, women, persons and entities including police/government/sheriff/bailiff/process server/council/private investigators/corporations”.

A neighbour said: “Everyone knows Darryl but no-one will say anything.”

The 65ha property is one of two listed as being owned by Young, the other being the 7740ha Bogie farm where the horrific shooting happened.

Graham Tighe and his pregnant partner before their son was born

Originally published as Bogie shooting: Accused mass shooter identified as reason for neighbour war revealed