AAP | 08:30am April 9, 2012
This Commodore was abandoned at the scene of the shooting. Pic: The Courier-Mail
FOUR men arrested in a dramatic Brisbane police shooting last night are wanted for more than 150 offences including on the Gold Coast.
The men are being questioned after police cornered their car at Zillmere, on Brisbane's northside, around 9.45pm.
They allegedly drove at police, who fired at the Holden Commodore sedan.
The damaged car stopped a short time later and the men were arrested near Wooloowin State School.
It was discovered one had suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh and police say he is now under guard in Royal Brisbane Hospital.
Queensland Police Union general secretary Mick Barnes said the four were being questioned over a spate of crimes stretching from the Gold Coast to Ipswich and Brisbane over a number of months.
They include ram raids, break-ins and other stealing and driving offences, he said.
Mr Barnes praised the teamwork of police, who were alerted to the car by two officers on their way to work.
He said the shooting was in "self-defence".
"It's not a great outcome that a young male is having to be taken to hospital for treatment," he said.
"But you have got to bear in mind these people have no respect for anybody else and it's only through their own actions that police had to do what they had to do."
The men are being questioned after police cornered their car at Zillmere, on Brisbane's northside, around 9.45pm.
They allegedly drove at police, who fired at the Holden Commodore sedan.
The damaged car stopped a short time later and the men were arrested near Wooloowin State School.
It was discovered one had suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh and police say he is now under guard in Royal Brisbane Hospital.
Queensland Police Union general secretary Mick Barnes said the four were being questioned over a spate of crimes stretching from the Gold Coast to Ipswich and Brisbane over a number of months.
They include ram raids, break-ins and other stealing and driving offences, he said.
Mr Barnes praised the teamwork of police, who were alerted to the car by two officers on their way to work.
He said the shooting was in "self-defence".
"It's not a great outcome that a young male is having to be taken to hospital for treatment," he said.
"But you have got to bear in mind these people have no respect for anybody else and it's only through their own actions that police had to do what they had to do."
Article from - www.goldcoast.com.au/news
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