Walkerston pub shooting victim Nicholas Amos reunites with O’Shea’s owner Andrew Guthrie

Watch: The gunshot victim of an alleged carjacking gone wrong outside a Walkerston pub has reunited with the publican — who was ‘by his side the whole time’ — for a few frothies.

Nicholas Amos was discharged from hospital and back in the pub less than 48 hours after being shot in an alleged carjacking gone wrong.

He returned to the scene of the crime to share a few beers with O’Shea’s patrons and publican Andrew Guthrie who he said was “by his side the whole time” during the Saturday night chaos.

Nicholas Amos and publican Andrew Guthrie at O'Shea's Hotel Walkerston less than 48 hours after Nicholas Amos was shot in an alleged carjacking gone wrong. Picture: Lillian Watkins

The two men among others were involved in a citizens arrest where they worked to take down the armed man, gaffer taping him until police arrived.

“We definitely do look after each other, that’s true,” Mr Guthrie said.

The pair had known each other for about five years with Mr Amos growing up in Proserpine but now working as a truckie and living in Brisbane.

Nicholas Amos and publican Andrew Guthrie at O'Shea's Hotel Walkerston less than 48 hours after Nicholas Amos was shot in an alleged carjacking gone wrong. Picture: Lillian Watkins

Despite living more than 1000km away, Mr Amos’s work regularly has him stopping in Walkerston, where he is already considered a ‘local’.

But now, that status has been irrevocably confirmed.

“He’s a certified local mate, 100 per cent now,” Mr Guthrie said.

“Doesn’t matter if he was from Prossie, he’s from here now.”

Wayne Strawchan, Lyndon Struckle, Nicholas Amos and bartender Carla-Anne Blackburn at O'Shea's Hotel Walkerston less than 48 hours after Nicholas Amos was shot in an alleged carjacking gone wrong. Picture: Lillian Watkins

Mr Guthrie said he recalled everything about the night, including the moment he realised Mr Amos had been hurt.

“When I was tying the bloke up, he said to me, ‘Andrew, I think I’ve been shot’, and I said — ‘bullsh*t’,” Mr Guthrie said.

It was only when Mr Guthrie took a step back he realised the truth to Mr Amos’s words.

“I said ‘far out, you have been!’”

But Mr Guthrie was not the only person who needed convincing of Mr Amos’s unfolding reality.

Nicholas Amos shows his gunshot wounds at O'Shea's Hotel Walkerston less than 48 hours after he was shot in an alleged carjacking gone wrong. Picture: Lillian Watkins

Mr Amos said he called his dad from hospital the morning after he was shot.

“My old man just said ‘bullsh*t’, and hung up on me,” Mr Amos said with a laugh.

But his parents eventually came around, with his mother coming to visit him in hospital later Sunday morning.

Nicholas Amos in Mackay Base Hospital after heroically intervening in a carjacking gone wrong outside Walkerston's O'Shea's pub on September 4, 2021. Picture: Lillian Watkins

Mr Amos went into surgery later that day with doctors’ concerned about a possible infection from the bullet that had sliced through his stomach and out his back.

Mr Amos was discharged on Monday and said he would be back to work on Tuesday, but could not resist a quick stop in to O’Shea’s before getting on the road.

“It’s good to be back,” Mr Amos said.

Originally published as Walkerston pub shooting victim Nicholas Amos reunites with O’Shea’s owner Andrew Guthrie