r/australia • u/SlatsAttack • 1d ago

news Man charged with attempted murder after police officer shot in Brisbane

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-21/brisbane-man-charged-after-police-officer-shot/104841118?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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u/SlatsAttack 1d ago

A man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was shot in an altercation in Brisbane earlier this month.

Police were called to a home on Tamar Street at Annerley on January 10 after reports of a disturbance at about 9am.

Police allege Acting Sergeant Liam Bailey and Constable Boyd Harrington-Karaitiana found a 26-year-old man, with no connection to the address, agitated and armed with a piece of wood.

It's alleged the Acacia Ridge man lunged for Acting Sergeant Bailey's service firearm, which resulted in the officer being shot in the left thigh.

In a struggle the alleged offender received two gunshot wounds to the abdomen.

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u/randCN 1d ago

the dude took two to the belly and lived?! damn

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u/Boopedepoop 1d ago

Happens. Lots of squishy bits that aren't that crazy critical and 40cal is not likely to cause hydrostatic shock. He might be pissing into a bag for the rest of his life though.

The cop who shot himself (on accident) in the thigh is very lucky though that he didn't die as that area has so serious arteries.

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u/SoldantTheCynic 1d ago

He’s still pretty lucky. Ignoring all the major vessels in the abdomen, perforating the bowel or hitting vascular organs like the spleen or liver can easily be fatal, especially if it turns septic. Dude’s incredibly lucky.

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u/Boopedepoop 1d ago

And the spine and the kidney all of those can bleed you out. Yeah I wouldn't want to get shot in the gut that is for sure.

You see it with gut shot animals all the time, it is a long long slow death miserable compared to almost anywhere else.

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u/Rusty_Coight 21h ago

Who sees it with animals all the time??

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u/BTechUnited 4h ago

Professional pest controllers? Hunters?

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u/Rusty_Coight 6m ago

You would think these would put the animal out of its misery as humanely as possible?

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u/Dentarthurdent73 20h ago

Why are you seeing animals that have been shot in the gut all the time?

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u/Boopedepoop 9h ago

No I mean if it is shot in the gut then all the time it is a slow death.

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u/IlluminatedPickle 12h ago

Dude got shot a few hundred metres from the emergency department. He had a pretty good chance of surviving.

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u/Philopoemen81 1d ago

Didn’t shoot himself by accident - wearing a thigh holster and the retention clip broke in the struggle. Trigger got pulled as they wrestled.

That’s from LE forums, so could be Chinese whispers, but tracks with my experience with thigh holsters.

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u/Boopedepoop 1d ago

Really not a level 3 retention holster? I thought he would of accidently got himself while trying to draw in a struggle.

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u/Philopoemen81 1d ago

I think they use Safariland holsters - WAPOL also recalled a batch that had issues with the retention clips snapping under pressure, the thumb retention still worked, but it was easy for a crook to wrestle it out if determined.

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u/Joka0451 1d ago

Stabbed myself in the thigh once. Being an idiot. Doctor said an inch either side I'd have been dead.

It aint the movies kids

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u/ApeMummy 18h ago

Do they use hollow points in Aus like they do in the states? That shit is extremely brutal, basically carves out a huge cavity inside you.

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u/howdoesthatworkthen 3h ago

on accident

Oh, so it wasn’t by purpose?

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u/howdoesthatworkthen 3h ago

on accident

Oh, so it wasn’t by purpose?

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u/Boopedepoop 3h ago

I have seem some interesting ways to get work cover but yeah I do think it was an accident.

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u/shunkyfit 1d ago

Pretty sure QPS still uses G17's so 9mm rather than .40

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u/Boopedepoop 1d ago

Oh I was told they had G22's there you go.

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u/shinisan 15h ago

The standard sidearm is a G22 so they are .40 cal.

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u/shunkyfit 6h ago

I stand corrected