Meanwhile, floral tributes left outside Toowoomba police station continue to grow as people honour Senior Constable Forte. Officer was 'a hero in every sense of the word' Police said it would take most of the day to assess the property and vehicles involved. The exclusion zone was lifted late yesterday but the road leading to the crime scene is still blocked. Police are still speaking to residents in the area as they try to piece together details for a coronial report. Queensland police said they will investigate how Maddison came in possession of the weapon.įorensic officers are continuing their work at the crime scene near Gatton.įorensic police at the crime scene on Wednesday morning. It is not known how Maddison would have come into possession of automatic or semi-automatic weapons, but it is believed it may have been brought into the country illegally, because fully automatic firearms have not been in Australia for 60 years. Police have not confirmed exactly what firearm gunman Maddison had, but they did say it was an automatic or semi-automatic weapon. Maddison, who had a violent criminal history and was known to have serious grievances with police, died after a siege and a shootout with police on Tuesday morning. He holed up in a shed at the site and fired shots at random intervals throughout the night, including some aimed at the police helicopter. Maddison then fled to a friend's shed at a nearby property where he had been living, which was stocked with an arsenal of weapons and ammunition. Maddison died after a siege and a shootout with police on Tuesday morning. The officer's partner dragged him from the vehicle to perform CPR. Senior Constable Forte then reversed his car in a final act and his car was riddled with bullets. The car was sprayed with bullets and Senior Constable Forte, who was driving the car, was shot through the windscreen. It had been believed Maddison killed the officer when the policeman tried to stop his car, but a police source has told the ABC Senior Constable Forte spotted Maddison driving his car and began following him.Īs Maddison's car drove over a ridge on a road in the Lockyer Valley, the gunman stopped suddenly, stepped out of the vehicle and turned back, firing a high-powered weapon at the police officer's car, in a move described as being like an American movie. More chilling details have emerged about the fatal shooting of the 37-year-old policeman and the subsequent siege with 40-year-old Maddison, west of Brisbane. Slain Queensland police officer Brett Forte was led into an ambush by gunman Rick Maddison on Monday morning, police sources say.
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