The Law Shooting in Darwin

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At least four dead.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06...-in-darwin-woman-injured/11179136?pfmredir=sm

 

[Craven Morehead]

At least 5 dead now.
Thought it was a domestic initially.
Now looks far more sinister.

 

[Malifice]

Just saw this.

Any indications it's Terrorism related, or just a random nutter (or both)?

 

[SSwans2011]

"At least four people are dead in Darwin after a gunman went on a shooting spree.
Northern Territory police duty superintendent Lee Morgan said a 45-year-old man is in custody. Officers expect to lay charges against him on Wednesday.

Morgan said police received calls about shots being fired in Darwin’s central business district at 5.50pm local time.

There were further reports of shots being fired in the neighbouring inner city suburb of Stuart Park followed by a sighting of the alleged offender in Woolner, he said.

At 6.45pm police arrested the man in Stuart Park without incident, Morgan said.

“At this stage we’ve got reports of four deceased and a number of other people who have been shot,” he told Guardian Australia.

Earlier, police had described the gunman as caucasian, wearing a high-vis shirt and driving a white dual-cab ute.

Witness Leah Potter said the gunman had a pump-action shotgun.

She said a woman was shot through her hotel room door at the Palms Motel on Darwin’s Esplanade at about 6pm.

“I was in the carpark [of a neighbouring hotel] when I heard what I thought were fireworks going off, really loud cracking, banging fireworks,” she told the ABC."

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...-of-up-to-four-people-dead-in-darwin-shooting

 

[Malifice]

''The alleged shooter, described by police as a 45-year-old Caucasian man wearing high-vis workwear, then reportedly fled the first scene in his ute before driving to the suburb of Stuart Park and allegedly firing his gun again.''

What's he done; knocked off work and then gone on a massacre?

Sawn off shotgun and not a high capacity assault rifle thank *.

 

[its free real estate]

Just saw this.

Any indications it's Terrorism related, or just a random nutter (or both)?

Lots of nutters in the NT.

 

[Malifice]

Lots of nutters in the NT.

Lived there (Darwin) for a few years in the mid 90's. The nutters usually come out in the wet season 'build up' when everyone goes batshit crazy.

Got my shooters license there (back in the day when you just walked into the local cop shop, answered a 10 question yes/ no 'safety test', got your photo taken, then popped next door to the gun shop and bought a SKS, SLR or an AR-15).

Thank * they changed the law.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

What the *.

 

[quotemokc]

''The alleged shooter, described by police as a 45-year-old Caucasian man wearing high-vis workwear, then reportedly fled the first scene in his ute before driving to the suburb of Stuart Park and allegedly firing his gun again.''

What's he done; knocked off work and then gone on a massacre?

Sawn off shotgun and not a high capacity assault rifle thank ****.

Thankfully he didn't have a knife, could have killed 20 people without anyone knowing.

I can make stupid statements that don't have anything to do with the incident as well.

Thanks for almost instantly derailing a thread with your politics.

Miserable Carlton sod.

 

[Malifice]

Thanks for almost instantly derailing a thread with your politics.

'Discussions of gun laws have no place in a conversation about mass shootings'

Straight from the NRA playbook. Keep fighting the good fight.

 

[quotemokc]

'Discussions of gun laws have no place in a conversation about mass shootings'

Straight from the NRA playbook. Keep fighting the good fight.

You are just a walking cliche.

The incident is barely an hour old and you have politicised it.

Why can't we ignore mods again?

 

[its free real estate]

Feed the perpetrator to Crocosaurus Cove.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

You are just a walking cliche.

The incident is barely an hour old and you have politicised it.

Why can't we ignore mods again?

You literally raised politics.

 

[CM86]

Has been named.
Apparently a biker.

 

[Malifice]

The incident is barely an hour old and you have politicised it.

NRA playbook move 2.

I eagerly await 'If only the Hotel owners had guns, they could have stopped this guy! We need MOAR guns, not less!'

 

[Bradesmaen]

Police or Army?

 

[SSwans2011]

Thankfully he didn't have a knife, could have killed 20 people without anyone knowing.

I can make stupid statements that don't have anything to do with the incident as well.

Thanks for almost instantly derailing a thread with your politics.

Miserable Carlton sod.

It's a good and pertinent point given the events of last few months. Get off your high horse.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

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Police or Army?

Police dressed as army

 

[Malifice]

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Police or Army?

Police. Just wearing greens.

The Army can only be called in in special circumstances (due to provisions in the Defence Act, and there has to be a formal handover to give control over a situation to the Military). Martial law, hostage situations etc.

The cops always go in first.

 

[Fagan Pride]

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Police or Army?

TRG. Police.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Police. Just wearing greens.

The Army can only be called in in special circumstances (due to provisions in the Defence Act, and there has to be a formal handover to give control over a situation to the Military). Martial law, hostage situations etc.

The cops always go in first.

I know. It's just very American to see them wearing greens. Very similar to what John Oliver was discussing a few years back.

 

[its free real estate]

The way this dude is kicking at the cops on the vision I’m saying this is ice related.

 

[Fagan Pride]

The way this dude is kicking at the cops on the vision I’m saying this is ice related.

I dunno. He was said to be quite calm and methodical during the actual shooting.

 

[SSwans2011]

The way this dude is kicking at the cops on the vision I’m saying this is ice related.

Read on Twitter (so not sure of validity) that was he was tasered. Someone mentioned a bikie connection earlier, but not sure where that's coming from.

 

[Jibroni]

Was in Darwin a couple of months ago, strange place but disturbed this would happen in the top end.