AUTRALIAN AUTHORITIES ARE investigating the extremist views of three people who shot and killed two officers and a neighbour at a rural property before they were killed hours later by police in a gunfight. Investigators will look at the possible extremist links of the killers after a series of posts under the name of Gareth Train, one of the murderers identified in the wake of Monday’s deadly shootout, were found on conspiracy theory forums, Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said late on Tuesday. The posts include references to anti-vaccine sentiments and claims other high-profile shootings were hoaxes or false-flag operations. (...) Four officers arrived at the property in the town of Wieambilla, in Queensland state, to investigate reports of a missing person. They walked into a hail of gunfire, the Police Commissioner said, and it was a miracle two officers managed to escape and raise the alarm. Those killed were PCs Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, along with 58-year-old neighbour Alan Dare. One of the officers who escaped, PC Randall Kirk, 28, was recovering at a hospital from shrapnel wounds on Wednesday. He said he and his wife wanted to thank everybody “from the Prime Minister down” for their messages of support.
via thejournal: Australian police investigate extremist views of Queensland killers
siehe auch: Wieambilla: Grief and questions after deadly shoot-out shocks Australia. About 16:30 local time on Monday, four junior police officers went for a routine visit to a rural property in a remote Australian area called Wieambilla. Within hours six people would be dead. Two officers were shot and killed, as was a concerned neighbour, before a long siege ended with specialist police fatally shooting three suspects. (...) What is known about the suspects? Nathaniel Train was a former school principal and the missing man police were at the property to check on. The others - his brother Gareth Train and Gareth's wife Stacey Train - co-owned the property. (...) Gareth Train appears to have contributed often to online forums which promoted conspiracy theories. In posts he had bragged about threatening police, and wrongly claimed the country's deadliest mass shooting was a government ploy to disarm Australians, The Guardian reported.