The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated that a man admitted to U.S. investigators that he was "responsible" for the Wieambilla shooting in Australia. This shooting, which resulted in the deaths of six people, including two police officers, has shocked Australian society.
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03-30, 2025In December 2022, at a remote property in Queensland, brothers Nathaniel Train, 46, and Gareth Train, 47, used high-powered rifles in an ambush, killing constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29. This incident highlighted the potential security threats faced by remote communities.
A year later, Donald Day Jr., 60, of Arizona, USA, was charged with threatening public figures and FBI agents, as well as illegal possession of firearms. Prosecutors submitted an FBI report to a preliminary hearing at the U.S. Federal District Court in Arizona on Wednesday. The report detailed information Day provided to two FBI agents during an electronically recorded interview at a hotel in Heber, Arizona, after his arrest.
Day allegedly said to his wife after reading the arrest warrant: "Yes, this does have to do with Queensland." Shortly after killing the two police officers, Nathaniel Train, along with Gareth and his brother's wife, Stacey Train, 45, fatally shot a neighbor, Alan Dare, 58. After they refused to negotiate or surrender, all three Trains were shot and killed by specialist police officers hours later.
Day allegedly told FBI agents a year later: "I feel completely responsible for it... because I didn't want to see my friends get killed like that." Day allegedly sent the Train brothers information about a "Christian doomsday ideology" known as "Premillennialism" between May 2021 and December 2022. Investigations into the shooting revealed that the Train brothers were paranoid and believed police were "devils and demons" who would turn the family into mindless slaves.
The FBI report claims that after Queensland police attempted to contact the Train brothers, Day told agents that he "poured fuel on the fire" instead of trying to de-escalate the situation. Day allegedly agreed with the agents' statement that he told the Train brothers before the shooting that he would kill police if they entered his property. Day allegedly told the Train brothers via online messages: "I'll kill them all because they are monsters and demons in the flesh."
Day allegedly told agents that he "didn't know things were going to end the way they did." The FBI report stated: "If he had known, he would have asked the Train brothers to be patient so that he could move the Train brothers to the United States." Prior to the shooting, Queensland police had visited the front gate of the Train brothers' property in response to a missing person report. Days later, four junior officers returned and entered the property to arrest Nathaniel Train for firearms offenses. The Train brothers opened fire on them from concealed sniper positions.
Day has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denies involvement in the Wieambilla shooting. The trial is scheduled to begin on April 22 in Arizona. A U.S. judge will rule on a motion by Day's lawyers to prevent Queensland police from testifying, arguing that hearing their "emotionally charged testimony" would prejudice the jury.
