Constable Keely Brough, 28, stood silently at a candlelight vigil within the close by city of Chinchilla on Friday night because the group grieved.
Wearing darkish sun shades and a blue and white ribbon pinned to her shirt, she stood side-by-side along with her fellow officers.
Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Charysse Pond hugged Constable Brough on the ceremony, the place a guard of honour was fashioned by locals who brazenly wept in the course of the tribute.
Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, Constable Rachel McCrow, 29, and Good Samaritan neighbour Alan Dare have been shot lifeless by Nathaniel and Gareth Train and Gareth’s companion Stacey Train in the course of the horrific ambush at Wieambilla on Monday.
Constable Randall Kirk, 28, and Constable Brough, managed to flee with their lives regardless of the sustained gunfire from the heavily-armed Train trio.
Constable Kirk was wounded and is recovering in hospital after surgical procedure.
During the siege, Constable Brough despatched textual content messages to her family members fearing she was about to die. The Trains had set hearth to the grass she was hiding in to try to flush her out.
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers stated the 2 officers killed had been “executed”.
“This was a pure execution,” he stated.
Yesterday, greater than 200 individuals gathered at Tara Police Station to pay tribute to the victims.
“They are such a close-knit and caring community and the loss of these lives has fallen hard on a great many people,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated.
“An act of violence and bloodshed so sudden, so cruel, so alien to the community and country that they know.”
