Wieambilla shooting: Gareth Train shared bizarre conspiracy theories before two officers shot dead

The owner of the remote property where two young police officers and an innocent neighbor were gunned down was a conspiracy theorist who believed the Port Arthur massacre was an inside job and that Princess Diana was murdered in a “blood sacrifice.” .

Daily Mail Australia has uncovered a series of paranoid posts shared online under the name of Gareth Train, who was shot dead along with his wife Stacey and school principal brother Nathaniel on Monday night in Wieambilla, west of Brisbane. .

The three family members, clad in camouflage and heavily armed, opened fire on a Queensland police team that visited their property at around 4:30pm to investigate the disappearance of Nathaniel, a respected director who was unknown to him. since October and who had not been seen since December. 2021.

Agent Rachel McCrow, 29, and Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, was shot to death at the scene, while an innocent bystander, Alan Dare, 58, was also killed. Two other policemen managed to escape, one into the bushes and one from the property.

Later, a special operations squad shot dead the three family members.

The property, owned by Gareth and his wife Stacey, was well off the grid, had extensive solar panels and water tanks.

Posts obtained by Daily Mail Australia show that Gareth Train was extremely active online in the comment sections of fringe news websites and regularly shared bizarre, and sometimes delusional theories about major world events.

Nathaniel Train (pictured) was shot dead on Monday at his brother’s property in Wieambilla, three hours west of Brisbane.

Constables Rachel McCrow, 29 (left) and Matthew Arnold, 26, (right) were shot dead as they entered Gareth Train’s property in Wieambilla, rural Queensland.

In a tirade on an online forum, Gareth is understood to have written that the Australian government was responsible for the Port Arthur Massacre, where 35 people were killed in Tasmania in 1996.

“Anyone who watched the live media coverage at the time and was aware of the political hoax that took place knows that this was a government psy-op to disarm the Australian population,” he wrote in November 2020.

Just two months earlier, Gareth had claimed that “chemical agents” had been dropped over Australia, covering much of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. “Now we are being poisoned and chemically manipulated on a massive scale,” he wrote.

His most outrageous claims were from April last year, where he spoke of a ‘hidden blood sacrifice’, which he said was responsible for the death of Princess Diana and 9/11.

“Most do not accept that the death of Princess Diana was a occult blood sacrifice to bewitch or the 9/11 blood sacrifice or the war machine,” he said.

‘Occult blood sacrifice goes hand in hand with the magic of hidden money.’ Occultism refers to the practices of supernatural beliefs.

Gareth also claimed that social media was “embedded with Lucifarian spells”.

He also wrote an anti-vaccination post, while in another he spoke about his thoughts on Queensland, which he referred to as the ‘badlands’.

“Bad cops, bad cell service, bad roads, bad advice, bad ice addicts, bad juvenile delinquency… but it’s still the best place to live free.”

Gareth had a strong dislike for the police force.

Four officers were at this Wains Road property in Wieambilla when they were shot

Meanwhile, his brother, Nathaniel Train, was a highly respected teacher who was hailed by his colleagues for his work with children, raising standards and dramatically improving test scores.

He was well liked as headmaster of Yorkeys Knob State School near Cairns, where he was headmaster for around five years, after joining from Innisfail East State School, where he has been headmaster since 2011.

He was most recently CEO of Walgett Community College Elementary School.

“He made Yorkeys the highest performing NAPLAN school in Far North Queensland,” a former colleague told Daily Mail Australia on Tuesday.

Stacey Train was also an educator and head of curriculum at Tara Shire State College.

She also applied to be the representative of the Western Downs branch of the Queensland teachers union.

Two other officers were wounded in Monday’s shooting.

Agent Randall Kirk, 28, with a young child and a pregnant wife, was shot in the leg but managed to escape.

Keely Brough, 28, managed to escape and hide in the bush, sending desperate text messages to her loved ones as she braced for the worst with gunmen setting fire to the bush to get her out.

She was later rescued by a specialized police tactical team that had rushed to the scene.

Alan Dare, who lives on a neighboring property, went out to inspect the commotion and was also shot in front of two unmarked gunmen.

Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said during a press conference on Tuesday that it was a miracle that the two officers survived.

“They bravely did what they could to save their colleagues in the most horrendous of circumstances,” he said.