In the hours after the Wieambilla shooting, the digital footprint of one of the shooters surfaced, giving early insight into the motivations behind the terrorist attack.
Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey Train were killed by police on December 12, 2022 after murdering two police and a neighbour in what has been classified as a Christian religiously motivated terrorist attack by Queensland Police.
Gareth Train left a trail of paranoid, conspiracy theory-filled screeds on obscure and extreme Australian blogs that revealed his doomsday Christian fundamentalist, anti-government and anti-police beliefs.
Some of these comments even foreshadowed future violence: “Don’t fear death.
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