Two Australian police officers were killed in an ambush. It was deemed terrorism but an inquest says otherwise

"Three years ago on a remote Australian property, a trio of paranoid, deluded conspiracy theorists lay in wait. The three members of the Train family spent a year preparing ambush positions for a confrontation with Queensland police at their home in Wieambilla, 270km west of Brisbane, believing the battle marked the end of the world. They believed they needed to defend themselves and their property from what they regarded was an evil advance on them, a coronial inquest has now found."

"The state coroner, Terry Ryan, on Friday accepted evidence by a forensic psychiatrist that they were gripped by a folie a trois a shared psychotic disorder based on the psychotic paranoia of Gareth Train. It was adopted by his wife, Stacey, and his brother, Nathaniel who were once married to each other and had previously worked as school principals. Those delusions turned a routine response to a missing person's report for Nathaniel into an hours-long gun battle on 12 December 2022."

Three members of the Train family prepared ambush positions at their remote Wieambilla property and opened fire on Queensland police and a neighbour. The shared psychotic disorder (folie à trois), rooted in Gareth Train's psychotic paranoia, spread to his wife, Stacey, and his brother, Nathaniel, both of whom had worked as school principals. A routine missing-persons response escalated into an hours-long gun battle on 12 December 2022, resulting in six deaths: the three Trains, constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold, and neighbour Alan Dare. The Trains believed the pandemic was apocalyptic, police were demons, and they were serving God's will.

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