Stunning photos have emerged of the bullet-ridden cop car and Bearcat armoured truck smashed up in the 90-minute gun battle between a crack response squad and Doomsday preppers.
The images show the two vehicles peppered with rounds during Monday night’s shootout being towed from the crime scene two days after the violent encounter.
Daily Mail Australia exclusively revealed ex-teacher Stacey Train ‘did engage’ with police, along with her husband and brother-in-law, Gareth and Nathaniel Train.
The paranoid trio had amassed an arsenal of weapons including rifles and a shotgun, and ambushed police when they arrived at the property with one wearing a ghillie suit.
Stunning photos have emerged of the bullet-ridden cop car and Bearcat armoured truck smashed up in the 90-minute gun battle between a crack response squad and Doomsday preppers
The images show the two vehicles peppered with rounds during Monday night’s shootout being towed from the crime scene two days after the violent encounter
The paranoid brothers had amassed an arsenal of weapons including rifles and a shotgun, and ambushed police when they arrived at the property with one wearing a ghillie suit
Daily Mail Australia exclusively revealed ex-teacher Stacey Train ‘did engage’ with police, along with her husband and brother-in-law, Gareth and Nathaniel Train
The fatal encounter began on Monday afternoon when Tara Police Station constables Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26, attended the property at Wains Road, Wieambilla.
They were accompanied by Chinchilla officers Constable Keeley Brough and Constable Randall Kirk, both 28.
They were there to check for the presence of Nathaniel Train, who had been reported missing after abruptly leaving his job as a teacher and his wife and home in New South Wales.
A timeline of events at the Wiembilla shootout that left two police, three assailants and a neighbour dead
Constables Rachel McCrow, 29 (left) and Matthew Arnold, 26, (right) were both gunned down upon entering Gareth Train’s property in Wieambilla, rural Queensland
The scene of the 90-minute shootout that left vehicles and the house riddled in bullets
When the people inside the property refused to come out the front of the 43ha property to allow the officers to check for the presence of Nathaniel Train, officers McCrow and Arnold jumped the fence.
They were fired upon from within the house; McCrow was struck in the leg and Arnold was also hit.
Kirk, who was still behind the perimeter fence, received a grazing bullet wound to a leg but managed to take off in his police car to call for help.
One of the Train brothers then emerged from the wooden house and moved down the driveway, shooting the stricken McCrow and Arnold at point blank range with a shotgun.
The rural town of Wieambilla is about 305km west of Brisbane in the Darling Downs region
Police were at the homestead to check for the presence of Nathaniel Train, who had been reported missing after abruptly leaving his job as a teacher and his wife and home in New South Wales
The shooter then took the Glock handguns from the bodies of the two officers and went back inside the house.
Brough managed to escape and hide in the surrounding scrub, but the Trains set fire to the grass trying to flush her out as she desperately retreated towards Robbos Road at the back of the Trains’ property.
Brough called 000 and texted her family, but managed to escape and was rescued by police reinforcements who had arrived at the scene.
When a large team of officers from Queensland’s Special Emergency Response Team had gathered to get the assailants, police say ‘a substantial gun battle’ ensued.
When the people inside the property refused to come out the front of the 43ha property (pictured) to allow the officers to check for the presence of Nathaniel Train, officers McCrow and Arnold jumped the fence
When a large team of officers from Queensland’s Special Emergency Response Team had gathered to get the assailants, police say ‘a substantial gun battle’ ensued (vehicle pictured with bullet holes)
Alan Dare (pictured) is being remembered as a ‘hero’ after he was killed in rural Queensland
Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train were by then armed with the shotgun, two other firearms and the two Glocks stolen from bodies of McCrow and Arnold.
The Trains fired on the SERT vehicle, which ended up pierced with bullet-holes which could not penetrate the armour.
Stacey Train ‘engaged’ with police during the firefight, but it is unsure whether she was wearing camouflage clothing like her husband and brother-in-law.
During the firefight, which left hundreds of shell casings on the property’s driveway and the front of the house, a vehicle was set on fire.
On police bodycam video of the shoot-out, officers can be heard identifying the Train males as PO1 and PO2 being under the car or near the house as the exchange of gunfire continued.
Members of the local community take part in a vigil at Calamvale police station south of Brisbane, Queensland, Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Heartbroken locals paid tribute to the fallen officers outside Tara Police station
Members of the community are reeling from the shocking tragedy and laid flowers outside Tara Police station
Neighbour Alan Dare, alarmed by the sound of gunfire and the sound of the vehicle exploding, drove to the front of the Trains’ house and as he was getting out of his car, he was shot in the back.
Mr Dare fell to the driveway and died from his wounds as the gun battle continued.
Distraught police officers believe the Trains ambushed police deliberately, even thought they were not adequately armed for the fight, forcing them to steal the slain officers’ weapons.
The three also had ‘no escape plan’, leading police to believe they may have intended to die during the shoot-out.
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