Inside the creepy bush property where teacher, his brother and sister-in-law, set up deadly ambush before they murdered two police officers and an innocent neighbour
- Real estate photos show the inside of the Wieambilla police shooting property
- Two officers – Matthew Arnold and Keeley Brough – were fatally shot on Monday
- The pair were part of four sent to search the home for missing Nathaniel Train
- Nathaniel, his brother and brother’s partner shot out at the officers who entered
Eerie photos show the inside of the home that housed three cop killers before a brutal shooting.
Four Queensland police officers – Matthew Arnold, 26, Rachel McCrow, 29, Keeley Brough, 28, and Randall Kirk, 28 – visited a home in Wieambilla, three hours west of Brisbane, shortly after 4.30 pm on Monday.
The team were searching for missing principal Nathaniel Train, who was last seen in the NSW central west town of Dubbo last year.
However, Nathaniel, his brother and his brother’s partner opened fire on the officers once they entered the property.
Real estate photos show the inside of a Wieambilla home (above) that was the scene of a gruesome police shooting on Monday
The home that was the site of the shooting features an enclosed verandah (above), two bedrooms and one bathroom
Mr Arnold and Ms McCrow were fatally shot at close range, Ms Brough was forced to run and hide in surrounding bushland and Mr Kirk was shot in the leg but managed to escape.
The three killers later lit a fire in an attempt to smoke Ms Brough out from her hiding place.
The rural home was bought by Train’s brother Gareth and his partner Stacey in 2015.
Real estate photos from inside the 43.5ha home on 251 Wains Road show the colourful interior of its kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms.
The home also features an enclosed verandah looking out to the large but dilapidated landscape.
Real estate photos from the home’s listing in 2015 before it was purchased by Gareth and Stacey Train show its colourful interiors (above)
Keeley Brough (left) and Matthew Arnold (right) were fatally shot during a search operation for missing man Nathaniel train on Monday afternoon
Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll told reporters on Tuesday morning it was now clear that ‘those officers did not stand a chance’.
It is understood the gunmen shot the officers at close range after they’d been knocked down and then stole their glocks.
Neighbour, Alan Dare, came to investigate what was taking place at about 5pm but was also shot and killed.
By 6pm police had declared an emergency declaration zone encompassing the area between Chinchilla Tara Rd, Wieambilla Rd, Bennetts School Rd and Mary St.
At 2am, Queensland Police confirmed two men and a woman – Nathaniel Train, his brother Gareth and a female partner – had been killed by officers at 10.30pm.
Daniel Train’s brother, Gareth, and his partner Stacey bought their Wieambilla home (above) in 2015
Daniel Train, brother Gareth and sister-in-law Stacey shot at four police officers who entered their Wieambilla property (above) to search for Daniel on Monday
Constable Brough was later rescued by a specialist police team of 16 officers.
Constable Kirk was taken to hospital and treated in the nearby town of Chinchilla.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who himself is a former police officer, said the incident would send ‘shivers down the spine of any police officer attending any job today, right around the country’.
‘And the families will be devastated. The families, the loved ones of those police officers who said goodbye for the last time yesterday, they will never ever recover from that,’ he told the Nine Network.
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