Queensland man shot dead after pointing stolen rifle at police on Bruce Highway

One man, age 36, fatally shot by police after pointing loaded rifle at officers during highway incident.

On a Monday morning in central Queensland, a chain of thefts and a loaded rifle converged on the Bruce Highway near Gladstone, ending in the death of a 36-year-old man at the hands of police. He had stolen a car, found a weapon inside it, taken a second vehicle at gunpoint from a woman at her home, and finally stepped out onto the highway shoulder pointing the rifle at officers — leaving them, in their account, no other choice. It is a story as old as desperation itself: a short, accelerating arc from one bad decision to the last one, witnessed by strangers in uniform who did not go to work ex

Queensland man shot dead after pointing stolen rifle at police on Bruce Highway

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