New details emerge on killers Stacey, Nathaniel and Gareth Train as cop who survived attends vigil
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Troubling new details have emerged about the love triangle between cop-killing brothers and their lover, as a police officer who miraculously survived the shooting pays tribute to her fallen colleagues.
Stacey, Gareth and Nathaniel Train were killed by a specialist police team in Wieambilla, some 300km west of Brisbane, on Monday after they shot dead two officers carrying out a missing persons search, as well as a neighbor. .
The Train trio’s bizarre love triangle formed after Gareth “took over” his younger brother’s marriage, according to their father, Ronald.
The brothers estranged from their conservative Christian pastor father following the breakdown of Stacey’s relationship with Nathaniel.
The brothers and Stacey then became increasingly obsessed with anti-authority conspiracy theories.
One of Stacey’s family members claimed that Nathaniel, a former principal at the school, was a “quiet” man who would still be alive if he hadn’t become entangled with the “control freak” Gareth.
A family member of Stacey Train claimed that her loved one would still be alive if she did not get involved with Gareth Train, her ex-husband’s brother (Pictured Nathaniel and Stacey Train)
The trio’s bizarre love triangle formed after Gareth “took over” Nathaniel’s marriage, according to the brother’s father, Ronald Train.
Officer Keely Brough (pictured) paid her respects to her fallen colleagues at a vigil in Chinchilla on Friday night attended by up to 400 people.
“I knew Gareth was a jerk when he took over his brother’s wife,” the family member said. The Guardian.
‘It all went downhill from there. She is now dead because of them.
Worrying details about their relationship have emerged, including claims from a local that Gareth was seen dragging Stacey down a flight of stairs by her hair.
Stacey’s parents are understood to have lost contact with their daughter years ago, with a family member blaming the breakup on Gareth’s “controlling” behaviour.
Her mother tried to contact her daughter every year on her birthday, but would quickly hang up if Gareth answered the phone.
It comes as a visibly emotional constable Keely Brough, 28, paid her respects to her fallen colleagues at a vigil at Illoura Village in Chinchilla on Friday night.
On Monday, the officer texted his family and police to say goodbye after desperately escaping into the surrounding bush to evade the murderous Train trio.
Officer Brough (second from right) did not speak at a vigil in Chinchilla on Friday and wore sunglasses well into the night as she paid her respects to her fallen colleagues.
The trio fired bullets and set a fire in an attempt to get her out after her colleagues Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, were shot to death execution-style.
A fourth officer, Randall Kirk, was shot in the leg but managed to escape Wieambilla fortress, while innocent neighbor Alan Dare was not so lucky and was shot in the back after he and another neighbor went to investigate. .
On Friday, more than 400 people gathered to pay their respects to the four victims of the alleged ambush as Chinchilla residents laid flowers and lit candles.
Const Brough did not speak at the vigil and wore sunglasses well into the night.
Deputy Commissioner Charysse Pond hugged the young officer tightly at the vigil as similar tributes were seen in the nearby town of Tara.
It has been discovered that Stacey and Gareth had transformed their isolated rural property into a violent playground of secret cameras, “kill zones” and barricades designed to help the trio ambush unsuspecting officers.
NSW Police issued a missing person alert for Nathaniel on December 4 and received a notice saying he was staying on the Wieambilla property.
Police are now considering whether that tip call came from Nathaniel, Stacey and Gareth as a way to lure the officers into their trap.
Deputy Commissioner Charysse Pond (right) embraced the young officer (left) in a big hug at the vigil as similar tributes were seen in the nearby town of Tara.
Investigators found two trenches hidden by brush complete with living quarters and a campfire that had been dug in the ground in advance.
Forensic officers have just begun combing the property for evidence after the bomb squad cleared the house of any other booby traps.
The trains had been prepared with a cache of weapons and ammunition, and then two Glock pistols were stolen from the bodies of Constable Arnold and McCrow.
Shortly after the officers were shot dead, Gareth and Stacey ranted about ‘devils’ and ‘demons’ in a now-deleted video on their YouTube channel.
Just hours after her death, the couple was filmed huddled in the dark and bragging about cold-blooded murders.
In the clip, seen and verified by Daily Mail Australia, Gareth said: “They came to kill us and we killed them.” He also refers to the police as ‘devils and demons’.
Stacey Train ends the video by saying ‘see you when you get home’ and ‘I love you Don’. It is not clear who exactly they are referring to.
Nathaniel Train does not appear in the clip. Approximately three hours after the video was released, the three members of the Train family were shot dead by tactical police.
Stacey and Gareth Train posted a chilling video on YouTube three hours before they were killed
In a video uploaded to YouTube the day before the fatal shooting that was reposted Friday, Stacey revealed that she was recently separated from her two adult children.
On the deleted YouTube channel, Gareth and Stacey Train use the names Daniel and Jane, their middle names. His channel only had six subscribers and 10 videos.
Only one of the clips had been viewed more than 50 times.
In a video uploaded to YouTube the day before the fatal shooting, Stacey revealed that she was recently separated from her two adult children.
She narrated a letter in the video that she wrote to a fellow conspiracy theorist.
‘I know the pain of losing children. Recently, my husband and I lost our two adult children when they chose the world, rejecting us and the narrow path to take the wider path that their partners and friends are on,’ he said.
‘This is a pain that will only heal in heaven.’
Another bizarre clip titled Bullyman shared a day before the siege features a robotic voice believed to be Gareth reading a missing person’s report for Nathaniel.
It opens with the title screen of the TV show Cops before showing a photo of Nathaniel shared when he was reported missing by NSW Police a week earlier.
Stacey and Gareth were shot dead in a late-night shootout with police three hours after their final video was uploaded (pictured is a still from the video)
Gareth’s brother, Nathaniel Train (pictured), did not appear in the final video uploaded three hours after the two police officers were killed.
The voice then reads the police missing persons report before going on an odd tirade with references to Train’s younger brother.
“I see there was no mention that this missing man was a high-level corruption whistleblower within the NSW department of education,” the voice said.
The video refers to “connections to the NSW Police organized crime syndicate and obsessed people branch” and an ASIO officer.
He also had a message for the police as he called a number of individual officers from NSW and Queensland. Daily Mail Australia has sought comment from police.
The haunting videos emerged as Queensland Police announced that the two slain officers will receive full police honors at a funeral on Wednesday.
A GoFundMe for the good Samaritan, Mr. Dare, has raised more than $70,000 for his widow, Kerry.
Community members are recovering from the shocking tragedy and laid flowers in front of the Tara police station.
Chronology of the events in the Wiembilla shooting that left two police officers, three assailants and a neighbor dead