{"id":517637,"date":"2026-03-04T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517637\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:26:12","slug":"police-shoot-allegedly-armed-man-on-sunshine-coast-after-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517637\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shoot allegedly armed man on Sunshine Coast after car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man allegedly armed with a gun has been shot by police on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

Officers were called to a single-vehicle crash on the Sunshine Motorway on-ramp at Sippy Downs just before midday today.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman said the man was allegedly armed and fled the scene.<\/p>\n

Police said the man then became involved in a confrontation with police on Nambour Connection Road in Woombye, about 10 kilometres north of the initial crash site.<\/p>\n

“Police tracked the car to Nambour Connection Road, when the driver got out of the vehicle and approached officers while armed with a gun, and was subsequently shot by police,” a Queensland Police Service spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police at the scene at Nambour Connection Road. (ABC Sunshine Coast: Madeline Grace)<\/p>\n

Officers provided first aid at the scene before paramedics took him to Sunshine Coast University Hospital.<\/p>\n

He suffered a “serious wound” but was in a stable condition, according to a Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Detective Acting Inspector Kerri Della-Bedova said a 31-year-old was in hospital with an injury to his shoulder.<\/p>\n

She said that, after the initial crash, the alleged gunman was given a lift by another man, which was “part of the investigation”.<\/p>\n

She could not say if the 31-year-old was wanted by police before\u00a0the shooting.<\/p>\n

“We’re still looking into the matter and it’s still being investigated,” she said.<\/p>\n

Witness Claire Smith heard two gunshots and described the scene as “scary” to watch.<\/p>\n

Ms Smith was driving past and witnessed part of the confrontation between the man and at least four police officers surrounding him.<\/p>\n

“It just looked like he was taunting the police, I couldn’t hear what he was saying,” Ms Smith said.<\/p>\n

“I was afraid for the [drivers] that had stopped because they were right next to him.”<\/p>\n

Ms Smith said she heard two shots ring out as she passed the scene.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/p>\n

Officers near the scene at Woombye, on the Sunshine Coast. (ABC Sunshine Coast: Madeline Grace)<\/p>\n

“It was so out of place to see a man waving a firearm around with the police with their guns drawn,” she said.<\/p>\n

Resident Hannah Bonnick was with her children in their backyard when she heard a commotion on the busy road, followed by two gunshots.<\/p>\n

“I heard some sirens, which is not unusual, but then I heard a lot of yelling, then I heard a gunshot,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I just yelled at [my kids] and told them to get back inside.<\/p>\n

“We ran upstairs and locked the doors, and then I told them to go to my room.<\/p>\n

“I was just looking through the windows and there were police cars everywhere, then a helicopter started circling the sky for a good 30 to 45 minutes.”<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

Police blocked both directions of Nambour Connection Road this afternoon, after officers shot an allegedly armed man. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Ms Bonnick said it was a shock for her quiet community, particularly given there were two schools nearby.<\/p>\n

“It was pretty scary only because just we didn’t know what was happening,” she said.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Suncoast Christian College, which is located close to the scene, said police had advised the area was safe and that parents could pick up their children as normal.<\/p>\n

Other witnesses described hearing multiple marked and unmarked police cars racing to the scene.<\/p>\n

Police said the matter would be investigated by the Ethical Standards Command with oversight by the Crime and Corruption Commission.<\/p>\n

Police are expected to provide more information at a press conference this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man allegedly armed with a gun has been shot by police on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Officers were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24907,1154,43,258581,44,6646,11942,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-517637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bruce-highway","tag-crash","tag-headlines","tag-nambour-connection-road","tag-news","tag-police-shooting","tag-sunshine-coast","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}