shot dead in Australia.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Rick Maddison fatally shot Senior Constable Brett Forte after the police officer intercepted his car in Queensland.<\/p>\n
He fled to a nearby farmhouse and spent the night in a stand-off with police.<\/p>\n
Maddison was killed by authorities after fleeing the house and firing on police, Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Tony Wright said.<\/p>\n
“He has been challenged by police at that point in time – he has fired at those police,” he told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Specialist police have returned fire. The male person has been shot and that male person has been declared deceased at the scene.”<\/p>\n
Mr Forte was killed after intercepting Maddison, who police had described as a “wanted person”, about 14:20 local time (04:20 GMT) on Monday.<\/p>\n
Authorities had set up an exclusion zone around the farm and began negotiating with Maddison at midnight.<\/p>\n
The confrontation happened just after 11:00.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said he wanted to resolve the siege “as peacefully as humanly possible”.<\/p>\n
Residents nearby residents were ordered to evacuate their homes on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Mr Forte was a husband and father who had been a police officer for more than 15 years, authorities said.<\/p>\n
“It is so distressing – not just to the police service – but to the community, that we have lost a fine police officer,” Mr Stewart said.<\/p>\n
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers said the officer was shot “simply trying to apprehend a wanted person”.<\/p>\n
“It could have been any one of us anywhere in Australia,” he told the Seven Network.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with his wife and his three children. He has got a daughter and two sons.”<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"