An intense firefight that unfolded on a remote Queensland property, leaving six people dead on Monday, has been laid bare in dramatic police helicopter audio. 9News
The police officers were with their colleagues Constable Randall Kirk and Constable Keely Brough, both 28, who both managed to escape with their lives before specialist police moved in on what became a six-hour siege.
The helicopter audio indicates how the team in the air guided the officers on the ground towards the three heavily armed shooters holed up at the farmhouse in Wieambilla.Constable Keely Brough and Constable Randall Kirk. Grieving widow remembers hero neighbour husband killed in cop shootingThe helicopter team described how two people of interest, also known as POIs, were down beside a couch and pointing their weapons, while the female POI was "unsighted".
The operators could be heard identifying a "single male discharging his weapon" before their POI moved to the rear of a utility. "From what I'm looking at, the main POI is obtaining rounds and loading the weapon from the rear of the utility," a PolAir officer said. The second male was described as sitting on the stairs before officers relayed the people of interest were loading and reloading their firearms.As the firefight intensified, PolAir spotted schoolteacher Stacey on the front verandah."No movement from number one," PolAir could be heard saying in the audio, before an officer could be heard saying "female down".
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