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Inside the Wieambilla shooting property revealed after six people, including two police officers, were gunned down

This is the rural Queensland property where six people, including two police officers, were killed in a horror shootout.

Wieambilla residents react to police shooting

Photos of the Wieambilla property where two police officers and a neighbour were shot dead in a horror ambush show where gunman Gareth Train and his wife Stacey Jane Train called home.

Real estate data shows Gareth and Stacey had owned the 43-hectare Wains Rd property for seven years, with the property featuring a timber home with a veranda and two water tanks and a dam.

The 251 Wains Rd property in Wieambilla where two police officers were gunned down by Gareth and Nathaniel Train on Tuesday afternoon.
The 251 Wains Rd property in Wieambilla where two police officers were gunned down by Gareth and Nathaniel Train on Tuesday afternoon.
The house at 251 Wains Road at Wieambilla, owned by Gareth and Stacey Train. It was the site of a double-police murder on December 12, 2022.
The house at 251 Wains Road at Wieambilla, owned by Gareth and Stacey Train. It was the site of a double-police murder on December 12, 2022.

Four Queensland police officers were called to the remote property about 4.40pm on Monday for a routine missing persons report.

It is understood that NSW Police had requested assistance from their colleagues north of the border to locate former school principal Nathaniel Train, who was last seen in Dubbo in December 2021, but had last been in contact with family in October 2022.

Police in Dubbo had requested that Queensland police attend the property owned by his brother Gareth, and his wife Stacey.

The Wieambilla property on the Western Downs where two police officers were gunned down by brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train.
The Wieambilla property on the Western Downs where two police officers were gunned down by brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train.

As the four police attended the property the camouflaged gunmen, understood to be Gareth and Nathaniel, opened fire.

Constable Rachel McCrow, 29, and Constable Matthew Arnold, were killed in the cold-blooded ambush.

Constable Rachel McCrow, 26, and Constable Matthew Arnold, 29, were gunned down at the property in the western Darling Downs, about three hours west of Brisbane.
Constable Rachel McCrow, 26, and Constable Matthew Arnold, 29, were gunned down at the property in the western Darling Downs, about three hours west of Brisbane.

A neighbour, Alan Dare, was also shot and killed after he attended the property.

The two other officers who also attacked, Constable Keeley Brough and Constable Randall Kirk, both aged 28, managed to escape.

Constable Kirk was shot in the leg while Constable Brough, who had only been in the force for nine weeks, fled into bushland, pursued by the gunmen who tried to flush her out of the bushland with fire.

After a siege of about six hours the three suspects were killed in a police firefight.

Originally published as Inside the Wieambilla shooting property revealed after six people, including two police officers, were gunned down

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