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Arizona Man Is Arrested in Connection With Australia Shooting
Two police officers and a bystander died in the shootout in Queensland last year.
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Cheryl Scanlon, an assistant commissioner of the Queensland Police Service in Australia, announced the arrest of an Arizona man in connection with a shooting on a remote property on Dec. 12, 2022. Credit...Jono Searle/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Yan Zhuang and Christine Hauser
Yan Zhuang reported from Sydney, Australia.
Dec. 6, 2023
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An Arizona man has been arrested in the United States in connection with a shooting in rural Australia last year that left two police officers and a bystander dead, the F.B.I. and the police in the Australian state of Queensland said on Wednesday.
The arrest was announced at a joint news conference in Brisbane, Australia, by the two agencies. They did not release the man’s name, but a federal indictment that was made public in the United States later on Wednesday charged Donald Day Jr., 58, with two counts of making interstate threats, accusing him of making videos related to the shooting and posting them on YouTube.
At the news conference on Wednesday, an assistant commissioner of the Queensland Police Service, Cheryl Scanlon, described the shooting as a “religiously motivated terror attack” and said that Australian investigators had been working in the United States on the case.
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Yan Zhuang is a reporter in The New York Times's Australia bureau, based in Melbourne. More about Yan Zhuang
Christine Hauser is a reporter, covering national and foreign news. Her previous jobs in the newsroom include stints in Business covering financial markets and on the Metro desk in the police bureau. More about Christine Hauser
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