According to their father, the two Australian males
who carried out the shooting that left six people dead were
"obsessed" with weapons as children.
Police shot and murdered Nathaniel and Gareth Train,
as well as Gareth's wife Stacey, on Monday after they shot two police officers
and a neighbor.
Police are looking into their possible involvement
with conspiracy theories and if they planned an ambush at the isolated
location.
On Thursday, Minister of Home Affairs Clare O'Neil
said it was probable that radicalization had been a factor.
"Radicalism is nothing new. Conspiracy
theories, false information, and misinformation, however, are age-old issues
that technology is accelerating into awful acts of violence, "She said the
House.
They are posing a fresh danger to our country's
security.
Police have stated that the trio used "several
weapons," although they have not yet specified which ones or given a reason
for the attack.
Ronald Train stated his boys were not
"monsters" but rather had "totally lost their path in life"
since cutting off contact with their family 20 years ago. This was his first
public statement since the massacre.
Mr. Train said in an exclusive interview with the
local television programmer A Current Affair that the two had a history of
expressing an interest in guns.
He said that "Gareth in particular was
fascinated Nathaniel to a lesser extent."
Gareth, the eldest of the two brothers, was
characterised by the father as a "difficult" child who was
"extremely temperamental [and] very dominating," but he claimed he
couldn't understand how his boys had ended up involved in such a
"horrific" occurrence.
With two children who had been reared with certain
ideas, Christian beliefs, Mr. Train remarked, "I just could not fathom how
anything like this could have occurred."
He also mentioned how Stacey Train, 45, had left her
first husband and the father of her children, Nathaniel, 46, for his brother
Gareth, 47, which had taken him by surprise.
At around 16:30 on Monday, police were searching a
property in Wieambilla, which is 270 kilometers (168 miles) west of Brisbane,
for Nathaniel Train, who had been reported missing.
Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, two constables,
were slain. The leader of the Queensland Police Union claimed that they were
shot once instantly and then again in "execution-style."
The fourth cop endured a long experience as the
suspects tried to track her down and set fires to try and flush her out. A
third officer was shot and injured but managed to escape.
When neighbor Alan Dare, age 58, arrived at the
scene because he thought a house was on fire, the suspects also murdered him.
Deep and significant inquiries
According to a number of media publications, Gareth
Train appeared to have often posted to online discussion boards that supported
conspiracies. He misrepresented the country's bloodiest mass massacre as a
government plot to arm Australians and showed his mistrust of police in online
messages, according to The Guardian.
In the aftermath of the massacre, Australia will
need to address "serious and critical policy problems," according to
Ms. O'Neil, but "today is a day for sorrow."
Growing up in a nearby village, local MP and
Nationals Party leader David little proud claimed the shooting had shaken his neighborhood
"to its core."
According to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the
dead cops were "young individuals serving their society with a rich and
full life ahead of them," and Mr. Dare was an "innocent Australian
who paid for his generosity and concern with his life."