{"id":821846,"date":"2026-07-24T23:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821846\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:33:11","slug":"man-dead-and-police-officer-in-stable-condition-after-fraser-coast-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821846\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead and police officer in stable condition after Fraser Coast shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has died and a police officer is in a stable condition after a shooting on Queensland&#8217;s Fraser Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police officers were called to an address on Horizon Court in Yengarie, west of Maryborough, at 5:44pm on Friday following reports of a domestic violence matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police allege a 45-year-old man approached officers on their arrival and shot at them, hitting a first-year constable in the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) was declared shortly after, and specialised police attended the address at 9:21pm where they found the man deceased on the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The officer was transported to hospital for treatment and remains in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An Ethical Standards Command investigation is underway, and police are expected to speak on the incident later on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died and a police officer is in a stable condition after a shooting on Queensland&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,11224,207684,4895,236292,44,5863,6646,94,701,396479,395858],"class_list":["post-821846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fatal","tag-fraser-coast","tag-incident","tag-maryborough","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-police-shooting","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-wounded","tag-yengarie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821846","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=821846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}