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| Darwin shooting: at least four people dead and two injured | |
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| At least four people are dead in Darwin after a gunman went on a shooting spree. | At least four people are dead in Darwin after a gunman went on a shooting spree. |
| Northern Territory police duty superintendent Lee Morgan said a 45-year-old man is in custody. | |
| “At this stage we’ve got reports of four deceased and a number of other people who have been shot,” Morgan told Guardian Australia. | |
| Reports an active shooter in Darwin CBD with up to 20 shots fired and people injured ... confusing scenes with tree on fire and roads blocked. pic.twitter.com/4WY2hVE2b3 | Reports an active shooter in Darwin CBD with up to 20 shots fired and people injured ... confusing scenes with tree on fire and roads blocked. pic.twitter.com/4WY2hVE2b3 |
| Witnesses reported seeing a man armed with a pump action shotgun opening fire at the Palms Motel on Darwin’s Esplanade. | |
| Morgan said police received calls about shots being fired in Darwin’s central business district at 5.50pm local time. | |
| Police arrested a suspect in Stuart Park without incident at 6.45pm. Officers expect to lay charges against him on Wednesday. | |
| Earlier, police had described the gunman as caucasian, wearing a high-vis shirt and driving a white dual-cab ute. | Earlier, police had described the gunman as caucasian, wearing a high-vis shirt and driving a white dual-cab ute. |
| Witness Leah Potter said the gunman had a pump-action shotgun. | Witness Leah Potter said the gunman had a pump-action shotgun. |
| She said a woman was shot through her hotel room door at the Palms Motel on Darwin’s Esplanade at about 6pm. | She said a woman was shot through her hotel room door at the Palms Motel on Darwin’s Esplanade at about 6pm. |
| “I was in the carpark [of a neighbouring hotel] when I heard what I thought were fireworks going off, really loud cracking, banging fireworks,” she told the ABC. | “I was in the carpark [of a neighbouring hotel] when I heard what I thought were fireworks going off, really loud cracking, banging fireworks,” she told the ABC. |
| Another witness, John Rose, told the ABC he saw the gunman walk into with “a sawn-off shotgun”. | |
| “He shot up all the rooms and he went to every room looking for somebody and he shot them all up, then we saw him rush out, jump into his Toyota pick-up, and rush off.” | |
| He said the gunman was calm as he shot up the hotel. | |
| “Once he left we went in and found one gentleman, he’s over there, we pulled him out,” Rose said. | |
| “This lady turned up and started screaming, and we didn’t realise there was another person in there … apparently he’s dead, he’s been shot.” | |
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