Brisbane police pursuit: Shocking moment suspect is rounded up by cops following wild car chase after three people are shot – as two men arrested and one is still on the run
Police helicopter footage captured the dramatic moment a suspect was tracked down and arrested following a wild chase after three people were shot.
Polair’s camera captured a car traveling at high speed during a night of violence in Brisbane that ended with two men arrested and charged with attempted murder and other crimes, and a third man still on the run.
Police were called at 10.40pm on Saturday after reports of gunfire in the Brisbane CBD, in what investigators said appeared to be a ‘targeted attack’.
The alleged perpetrators fled the scene and traveled to the southwestern suburb of Darra in a getaway car that was set on fire just after midnight.
The Dog Squad, Polair and specialist police assisted local officers in arresting two suspects in Darra and recovering one firearm.
Police helicopter footage captures the dramatic moment a suspect (pictured) was located and arrested following a wild chase after three people were shot
A 19-year-old man from Redbank Plains and a 20-year-old man from Goodna have been charged with a total of 30 offences, including attempted murder, wounding, discharging a weapon, unlawful possession of a weapon and arson.
At 11pm, two women – one in her 20s and the other in her late teens – walked into the Sheraton Hotel on Mary St in Brisbane city center with injuries to their legs that appeared to be caused by bullets.
They were taken to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a stable condition.
Around the same time, a man in his 30s walked into Fortitude Valley police station with similar injuries.
He was also taken to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a stable condition.
The manager of the Turquoise Kebab and Pizza shop that was shot at said staff ran for their lives.
Shaban Kousa said customers were ordering food when a car passed by and suddenly started shooting.
“Some of our customers were injured, but not seriously,” he told the newspaper Courier mail.
“We all started running in (to the back of the store), with all the customers in the store.”
Shortly afterwards the police arrived and questioned the staff and customers.
Detective Acting Inspector Michael Hogan told reporters that police had been called to a shooting along Mary Street in Brisbane.
Polair’s camera captured a car (pictured) traveling at high speed during a night of violence in Brisbane
“A vehicle containing three males drove to the location where they encountered a known male,” he said.
“These men were armed with a firearm, they discharged that firearm resulting in three people sustaining injuries that we consider non-life threatening.”
He said the men then drove to Darra, where they set the car on fire and fled on foot.
Two men were arrested a short time later, but another is said to have escaped.
‘It was a very targeted attack on one individual. The motivation for the investigation is likely to become clearer in the coming days,” Det Hogan said.
He said there is nothing to indicate that the incident gang related and there was no connection to the Sheraton Hotel.
The two women who were shot were not known to the three men police say were involved.
Both men were arrested and refused bail and are due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.
A police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia the third suspect remains at large and anyone with information about his whereabouts should contact police.
Investigators believe a 22-year-old man from an address in Brisbane’s south-west suburb of Goodna could assist with their investigation.
Det Hogan said it was worrying that such a brutal attack took place but that it was not random.
“There’s really no need for the rest of the public to be concerned about their well-being,” he said.
The incident was one of two shooting incidents overnight in Brisbane and three in total in Queensland.
Emergency services were called to a unit on Grant Road in Morayfield in Brisbane’s north shortly after midnight on Sunday after a neighbor in the same complex heard a gunshot.
A 29-year-old woman was found on the ground floor of the unit with a gunshot wound and died at the scene.
And in Townsville, police shot dead a man in Mount Louisa during an apparent mental health episode.