[ad_1] Police have announced they have tracked down and arrested a man in the United States over the murder of two police officers last year. Matthe
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Police have announced they have tracked down and arrested a man in the United States over the murder of two police officers last year.
Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow were killed on December 12 when they went to the remote Western Downs bush block to investigate a missing person’s report.
They were murdered, alongside good Samaritan neighbour Alan Dare, by a family of three extremist Christian conspiracy theorists who ambushed them with high-powered rifles.
Investigators from the QPS Ethical Standards Command and the Security and Counter Terrorism Command travelled to the United States of America to pursue the investigation.
“On Friday morning, December 1, 2023 (US time) FBI Agents arrested a 58-year-old United States national near Heber Overgaard, Arizona in connection to the religiously motivated terrorist attack on December 12, 2022 at Wieambilla,” Queensland Police said in a statement.
“Investigations by the QPS and FBI are ongoing in Arizona.
“The state coroner and families of Constables Matthew Arnold, Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare along with other officers involved, have been briefed on the progress of this investigation.”
Members of the Train family – brothers Nathaniel and Gareth Train, and his wife Stacey – murdered both constables when they attended the Wains Rd property near Tara.
The officers were conducting a welfare check on Nathaniel, a former NSW school principal who had been reported missing months earlier.
A third constable, Keely Brough, fled into bushland when the trio fired upon her while a fourth officer, Randall Kirk, was injured.
Mr Dare was killed by the trio when he came to investigate smoke coming from the property, caused by fires the Trains had lit to flush out constable Brough.
Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey were all killed during a shootout with police later that night.
Further investigations determined the Trains followed an extremist Christian ideology known as “premillennialism” – the belief Jesus Christ would return to earth after a period of extreme suffering.
Chilling YouTube videos uploaded by Gareth and Stacey just hours after the shooting – where they admitted to the shooting – were also discovered.
Queensland Police Service Assistant Commissioner Cheryl Scanlon and FBI representative Nitiana Mann are due to update the media on the arrest later this afternoon.
More to come.
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