Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has vowed to “unpack these peoples’ lives” as the investigation into the Wieambilla seige killers continues.
She said their alleged links to online conspiracy networks would be examined, after brothers Nathaniel and Gareth Train shot and killed two police officers on their Darling Downs property on Monday.
The two Train brothers, along with Gareth’s wife Stacey, were subsequently killed in an exchange of gunfire with police.
“We will get to the bottom of this,” Carroll told Today.
“It may not be in the next couple of days, certainly in the next couple of weeks we will get a real sense as to why this occurred.”
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She said she had spoken to the parents of slain police Constable Matthew Arnold and Constable Rachel McCrow.
“Their hearts are broken. It’s a tough time, these are dark days,” she said.”It will take us a while to get over this, and certainly I think, particularly, for the officers involved in this.”
Carroll reiterated that it was a “miracle” that two other police with Arnold and McCrow had survived the shooting.
“They are holding up well, holding up well, eternally grateful that they are alive, but incredibly incredibly saddened that they saw two of their colleagues killed in front of them,” she said.
“It’s something I think that will never leave them for the rest of their lives.”
