Key takeaways:
- A US citizen has been charged in Arizona for allegedly inciting a “religiously motivated terrorist attack” in Australia that left six people dead.
- The attack saw three people, including two officers, killed when police were ambushed at a rural property last year.
- The man arrested in Arizona has been charged with inciting the attack and is currently in custody.
A U.S. citizen has been charged in Arizona for allegedly inciting a “religiously motivated terrorist attack” that left six people dead in Australia a year ago, officials said Wednesday.
The 58-year-old man was arrested by FBI agents in Heber Overgaard, Arizona on Dec. 1 for allegedly sending Christian extremist messages to two of the people who carried out the shooting, police in Australia said at a news conference.
The violent attack saw three people, including two officers, killed when police were ambushed at a rural property last year. Queensland state police officers Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold and innocent bystander Alan Dare were fatally shot by Gareth Train, his brother Nathaniel Train and Nathanial’s wife Stacey Train in an ambush at the Trains’ remote property in the rural community of Wieambilla last Dec. 12, investigators say.
Four officers had arrived at the property to investigate reports of a missing person. Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, and Constable Rachel McCrow, 29, were killed last Dec. 12 while attending a property in the village of Wieambilla, northwest of Brisbane on Australia’s east coast.
The man arrested in Arizona has been charged with inciting the attack and is currently in custody. The investigation is ongoing and further details are expected to be released in the coming days.
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