Hiding behind a tree, where he dived for cover seconds earlier, Constable Randall Kirk watches as a gunman with a high-powered rifle, shoots a colleague dead just metres away.
The young police officer had made futile attempts to call for help over the police radio and was forced to instead ring a colleague on his mobile phone.An inquest into the 2022 Wieambilla massacre, where two police officers and an innocent neighbour, were killed by three conspiracy theorists is under way in Brisbane.
The officers were looking for Gareth’s brother Nathaniel, a former school principal, who had previously been married to Stacey. “He’s shot Rachel, I believe. She’s dead ... there’s two of them. They’ve got Matthew’s gun now,” Kirk says to Dryer over the phone. Kirk replies, “I’ll try,” before sprinting for his police vehicle and jumping over a locked gate with his Glock in one hand and his mobile phone in the other.
Kirk, who was shot in the abdomen and hip, gave evidence at the inquest on Tuesday at Brisbane Coroners Court.
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