US Politics | Husband and wife shot dead alongside their son in farm with neighbour arrested after manhunt
A HUSBAND and wife have been shot dead along with their son at their farm, cops said. Mervyn and Maree Schwarz and her son Graham Tighe were killed on remote farmland in outback Australia and the alleged gunman, who is a neighbour, was later arrested. 
BBCMervyn and Maree Schwarz were killed along with their son '/ ' 
Maree had recently become a grandmother Graham's brother Ross survived being shot and managed to flee "many, many kilometres" to raise the alarm, said police. He airlifted to hospital and is in intensive care in a serious but stable condition. Queensland Police Acting Superintendent Tom Armitt said three of the five people assisting police remained in custody, local media reports. Armitt said the parties involved in the alleged shooting were neighbours. READ MORE ON AUSTRALIA 
CRASH COURSE 'Alien-like' debris from Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket crashes back to Earth He revealed ...the person nominated as the alleged gunman is with us here in custody.... Cops launched a manhunt to find the shooter, who remained at large for several hours. The killings are linked to a property dispute, the Courier-Mail reports, though police wouldn't confirm any motives. Officers were called to the property in the small outback mining town of Bogie, north Queensland, which has a population of 207, at just before 9am on Thursday. Neighbours say the property was to a young family last year but there was an ongoing dispute with a neighbouring property owner over boundary lines. The family had only bought the huge 300-square-kilometre plot of land for £5.7 million in May 2021, which is zoned for cattle grazing, breeding and farming purposes, the Daily Mail Australia reports. The shooting took place on a sprawling cattle property which is "rural, remote, very hilly and heavily forested", said Mr Armitt. Most read in US News CODE RED China 'convinced it needs to hit US with Pearl Harbor-style strike' over Taiwan 'EXTREME DANGER' Police alert over mom who vanished with husband and his 2 young kids UP IN FLAMES Infant & pregnant woman among 5 dead in fiery crash with 8 others hospitalized 'BARGAINING CHIP' Brittney Griner's guilty verdict may spark mini-Cold War, experts warn AIR THREAT China flies 22 jets into Taiwan airspace after firing 11 missiles in war drills STAR SENTENCED Brittney Griner sentenced to NINE YEARS in Russian prison on drug charges Queensland police said that "investigations remain ongoing into the circumstances leading up to the shooting". A local woman told Daily Mail Australia she saw several police cars racing towards scene of the shooting. "I saw at least three police cars while I was outside and heard a few more sirens after that," she said. "It's not usually what you see. I thought straight away that something bad had happened." Read More on The Sun 
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VANTASTIC Mum-of-22 Sue Radford shows reality of motorhome holiday with her kids Australia has some of the toughest gun laws in the world, introduced after a lone gunman murdered 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996. Since then, there have been only three mass shootings \- defined in Australia as those resulting in at least four deaths, excluding the perpetrator. 
BBCTheir other son was airlifted to hospital '/ '
BBCMervyn and Maree Schwarz were killed along with their son '/ ' Maree had recently become a grandmother Graham's brother Ross survived being shot and managed to flee "many, many kilometres" to raise the alarm, said police. He airlifted to hospital and is in intensive care in a serious but stable condition. Queensland Police Acting Superintendent Tom Armitt said three of the five people assisting police remained in custody, local media reports. Armitt said the parties involved in the alleged shooting were neighbours. READ MORE ON AUSTRALIA CRASH COURSE 'Alien-like' debris from Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket crashes back to Earth He revealed ...the person nominated as the alleged gunman is with us here in custody.... Cops launched a manhunt to find the shooter, who remained at large for several hours. The killings are linked to a property dispute, the Courier-Mail reports, though police wouldn't confirm any motives. Officers were called to the property in the small outback mining town of Bogie, north Queensland, which has a population of 207, at just before 9am on Thursday. Neighbours say the property was to a young family last year but there was an ongoing dispute with a neighbouring property owner over boundary lines. The family had only bought the huge 300-square-kilometre plot of land for £5.7 million in May 2021, which is zoned for cattle grazing, breeding and farming purposes, the Daily Mail Australia reports. The shooting took place on a sprawling cattle property which is "rural, remote, very hilly and heavily forested", said Mr Armitt. Most read in US News CODE RED China 'convinced it needs to hit US with Pearl Harbor-style strike' over Taiwan 'EXTREME DANGER' Police alert over mom who vanished with husband and his 2 young kids UP IN FLAMES Infant & pregnant woman among 5 dead in fiery crash with 8 others hospitalized 'BARGAINING CHIP' Brittney Griner's guilty verdict may spark mini-Cold War, experts warn AIR THREAT China flies 22 jets into Taiwan airspace after firing 11 missiles in war drills STAR SENTENCED Brittney Griner sentenced to NINE YEARS in Russian prison on drug charges Queensland police said that "investigations remain ongoing into the circumstances leading up to the shooting". A local woman told Daily Mail Australia she saw several police cars racing towards scene of the shooting. "I saw at least three police cars while I was outside and heard a few more sirens after that," she said. "It's not usually what you see. I thought straight away that something bad had happened." Read More on The Sun WHAT THE QUACK I got 0.5mm of lip filler but regret it so much, I look like a duck VANTASTIC Mum-of-22 Sue Radford shows reality of motorhome holiday with her kids Australia has some of the toughest gun laws in the world, introduced after a lone gunman murdered 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996. Since then, there have been only three mass shootings \- defined in Australia as those resulting in at least four deaths, excluding the perpetrator. BBCTheir other son was airlifted to hospital '/ '
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