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Harrowing audio captured the horrifying moment a family of police killers opened fire on a group of young police officers as one of their victims was executed at close range despite pleading for her life.
Gareth Train, along with his brother Nathaniel, a former school principal, and his wife, former teacher Stacey, shot dead Queensland police officers Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26, when they approached his property around 4:30 p.m. Monday.
The three family members, dressed in camouflage and heavily armed, opened fire on officers as they arrived at the Train family’s Wieambilla ranch to investigate the disappearance of Nathaniel, who had not been heard from since October.
An innocent bystander and neighbor, Alan Dare, 58, was shot in the back and killed as he ran onto the property to investigate the gunshots.
Harrowing audio captured the haunting moment police saw and heard their colleagues being murdered in cold blood.
‘We believe that POI 2 may be downloading rounds. Gunshots,” says a male officer.
‘It appears that POI 2 is attempting to reload. POI 1 potentially taken a round here. POI 1 not moving. There is no movement from number 2 and there appears to be blood on the ground.’
It is understood that Ms McCrow pleaded for her life as she lay injured on the ground, but was brutally murdered by the family despite her pleas.
Constables Rachel McCrow, 29 (left) and Matthew Arnold, 26, (right) were shot dead as they entered Gareth Train’s property in Wieambilla, rural Queensland.
She and her colleague Agent Arnold were ambushed and shot at point blank range as they approached the front gate of the remote property.
Constable Arnold became a police officer in March 2020, while his colleague Constable McCrow was sworn into the force in June 2021.
A third officer, Constable Randall Kirk, was shot in the leg while running for cover as Constable Keeley Brough hid in the tall grass to evade the assassins.
Agent Brough sent frantic text messages to her loved ones as gunmen set fire to bushes in an attempt to get her out.
She had only graduated from the police academy eight weeks ago, but she bravely provided her colleagues with ongoing information from her hiding place.
At least 16 general duty officers arrived on the scene when a mass shooting occurred.
Four officers had attended a property on Wains Road, in Wieambilla, west of Brisbane, around 4:30pm on Monday, after being asked by their colleagues in New South Wales to check on missing man Nathaniel Train. Two officers were shot and killed
The property, owned by Gareth, who talked about preparing his home for an apocalypse, and his wife Stacey was well off the grid, had extensive solar panels and water tanks.
One of the two surviving officers, Constable Keeley Brough (pictured) fled into the surrounding bushland, where he sent text messages to family members believing he was going to die.
Officers were able to recover the bodies of their fallen colleagues and rescue Mr Dare’s wife, Kerry, from where she was hidden in the back of a car.
Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey were later shot dead by a heavily armed special operations squad around 10:30pm local time on Monday night.
Officers were checking Nathaniel Train, the former principal at Walgett Primary School, in greater western New South Wales, and at Yorkeys Knob State School in far north Queensland.
He had not been seen by some loved ones for over a year and had not been heard from since October. He was reported missing last week in Dubbo.
His brother Nathaniel was believed to have lived in the regional north of New South Wales before traveling to Wieambilla to join his brother Gareth.
The town of Wieambilla, just south of Chinchilla in Queensland, has a population of around 100
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 theories about major world events.
In an online tirade, Gareth wrote 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.
Neighbor Alan Dare (pictured) was shot dead by the two men after he went to investigate the shooting.
Gareth also regularly shared his mistrust of the Queensland Special Emergency Response Team (SERT), the same team that came to his house and shot him at around 10:30pm local time last night.
“The state-sponsored terrorist squads – SOG, SERT and other special people are nothing more than government paramilitary hammers,” he said in September last year.
His brother Nathaniel is believed to have lived in Gareth and Stacey’s house, which was off the grid and seemed to be preparing for an impending apocalypse, complete with sprawling solar panels and water tanks.
Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said attending officers “didn’t stand a chance” as she tearfully addressed reporters on Tuesday.
“The fact that two made it out alive is a miracle,” he said.
Flags will be flown at half mast at all Queensland police stations on Tuesday as a floral tribute is held outside Chinchilla police station.
Nathaniel Train (centre of photo) was shot dead on Monday at his brother’s property in Wieambilla, three hours west of Brisbane.