{"id":823860,"date":"2026-07-25T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823860\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:44:12","slug":"mount-sheridan-two-people-including-innocent-bystander-shot-by-queensland-police-in-cairns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823860\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Sheridan: Two people, including innocent bystander, shot by Queensland Police in Cairns"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman is in hospital after being shot by a stray bullet fired by police<\/a> in North Queensland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The woman was standing out the front of her Mount Sheridan home in Cairns, when she was struck on the leg as police opened fire on a man who was allegedly armed.<\/p>\n

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Police were forced to open fire on an allegedly armed man.\u00a0Today<\/p>\n

Police were initially called to Benjamina Street shortly after 5pm on Saturday after reports a man in his 20s was armed with knives during an attempted armed robbery.<\/p>\n

The man, 28, fled on foot and was found at a roundabout connecting Hardy Road, Foster Road and Lizard Street.<\/p>\n

Police tried to speak to the man, but shortly after they fired shots at him, hitting him in the elbow and buttocks.<\/p>\n

It is not known what caused the officers to open fire.<\/p>\n

During this time, a stray bullet fired by police hit a woman on the leg. She was not involved in the incident.<\/p>\n

The suspect and the bystander were treated at the scene by emergency services before being taken to Cairns Base Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

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The man and the innocent bystander are in a stable condition in hospital.\u00a0Today<\/p>\n

Queensland Police\u2019s ethical standards command is investigating, and officers will address the media today.<\/p>\n

The shooting is the second involving Queensland Police this weekend, with a first-year constable in hospital after being involved in a confrontation<\/a> with a man on the Fraser Coast.<\/p>\n

The man who fired shots at police was later found dead inside a shed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman is in hospital after being shot by a stray bullet fired by police in North Queensland.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-823860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823860","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=823860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}