12 December 2022 4:30p.m. – 10:30p.m. (AEST, UTC+10:00)
Attack type
Ambush, mass shooting, shootout, triple-murder
Weapons
Firearms
Deaths
6 (including three perpetrators)
Injured
2
Victims
Constable Matthew Arnold Constable Rachel McCrow Alan Dare
Perpetrators
Nathaniel Train Gareth Train Stacey Train
Motive
Christian fundamentalism
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The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland. Three residents, brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train, and Gareth's wife, Stacey Train, were subsequently shot and killed by responding police. The shootings were labelled as Australia's first fundamentalist Christian terrorist attack.[1]
^Joe Hinchliffe (16 February 2023). "Wieambilla shootings labelled Australia's first Christian terrorist attack". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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