COUNTDOWN TO A NIGHTMARE
How murderous Trains meticulously planned their attack MONDAY DECEMBER 12 2022
4.30pm
Four officers arrive at the Trains’ property on Wains Rd, Wieambilla, in response to a missing persons inquiry for former NSW school principal Nathaniel Train, 46.
Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, are understood to have arrived first.
The driver honked the police car horn to alert those at the property of their presence before being joined by fellow Constables Keely Brough and Randall Kirk in a separate police vehicle.
Constables Arnold and McCrow jumped the fence and walked up the driveway where they were struck by a hail of bullets.
Const Kirk’s 4WD was shot multiple times through the rear window as he fled back to the road to raise the alarm and was struck in the leg.
Const Brough fled for cover in long grass and hid in nearby bush.
Officers from the elite Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) flew to the scene in a helicopter.
Police issued an emergency declaration closing off the area and directing neighbouring residents to stay inside and nearby gas workers to avoid the area.
A separate 16-strong group of local police couldn’t wait for the SERT to
The Trains hunted for Const Brough, setting fire to the bushland in an attempt to flush her out while firing further rounds into the trees.
Const Brough, who was arrive so attempted to retrieve the bodies of the fallen officers.
The Trains opened fire, forcing police to fire back.
The SERT arrived at about 6.10pm and surround the property.
The windscreen of an armoured vehicle used by the tactical police was riddled with bullet holes in the heavily-fortified glass. sworn in only eight weeks ago, used her mobile to provide information to police and texted her family believing she was about to die. She later made it to safety.