{"id":944916,"date":"2026-10-29T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944916\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:58:15","slug":"vana-reese-schuster-togiatau-19-dies-in-hospital-after-drive-by-shooting-south-of-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944916\/","title":{"rendered":"Vana-Reese Schuster-Togiatau, 19, dies in hospital after drive-by shooting south of Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queensland teenager has died in hospital days after a drive-by shooting at a pub south of Brisbane.<\/p>\n

Vana-Reese Schuster-Togiatau, 19, from Jimboomba was shot in the head and neck at Fitzys Loganholme on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

She died at the Princess Alexandra Hospital on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

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Vana-Reese Schuster-Togiatau was shot in the neck and head. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

She was one of four people shot by two masked men during a boxing event at the popular local nightspot.<\/p>\n

Three men \u2014 Zachary Uchtman, Brodie Blackwood and Kane Barrett \u2014 were also hospitalised after being shot in the incident.<\/p>\n

Logan District Detective Inspector Ian Galpin said the incident was now a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n

“A 19-year-old woman in the prime of her life who was simply going out for a night out with friends has had her life taken from her in the most cowardly way,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have not stopped and we will not stop until these people are identified and taken into custody.”<\/p>\n

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Logan District Detective Inspector Ian Galpin\u00a0says the matter is now a homicide investigation. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Galpin appealed to anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n

“There are people out there who know exactly who was involved in this offence and know exactly why it occurred,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m asking those people to brave enough to come forward with that information and contact police.”<\/p>\n

With some 80 detectives working on the case, Detective Inspector Galpin said Queensland Police had not ruled out gang involvement in the shooting.<\/p>\n

“We are keeping a very open mind to the involvement of gangs,” he said.<\/p>\n

“That said, our priority now is to identify the persons involved and the reasons for this offence occurring.<\/p>\n

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Four people were rushed to hospital after the drive-by shooting at Loganholme on Saturday night. (ABC News: Stephen Cavenagh)<\/p>\n

“The police have received a lot of information in the last few days.<\/p>\n

“I encourage the community to keep that information coming in.”<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Galpin said Ms Schuster-Togiatau’s family were going through “an incredibly difficult time”.<\/p>\n

“We’re in touch with the family and they’re not doing well,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s an incredibly difficult time. I can’t imagine the hurt they’re going through.<\/p>\n

Police hunt for drive-by shooting suspects<\/a><\/p>\n

Police say there were “elements of pre-planning” to the attack on Saturday, but there was “no indication” the victims were targeted.<\/p>\n

“We will continue to support the family in every way possible.”<\/p>\n

He confirmed that two of the other victims of Saturday’s shooting have been released from hospital, with one remaining to receive more treatment.<\/p>\n

Logan City Mayor Jon Raven said he was “deeply saddened” by Ms Schuster-Togiatau’s passing.<\/p>\n

“The 19-year-old Logan local was deeply loved by her family, friends and community,” Mr Raven said.<\/p>\n

“I cannot comprehend the pain they are going through.”<\/p>\n

A Gofundme page “supporting Vana-Reese and her wh\u0101nau”, was set up earlier this week.<\/p>\n

It has raised more than $53,000 with a target of $70,000.<\/p>\n

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Vana-Reese Schuster-Togiatau has died in hospital after being critically injured in a drive-by shooting in Logan. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

“From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your love, kindness and support during this heartbreaking time,” it says.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Galpin thanked the quick thinking of people at the venue who came to the aid of victims on Saturday night before emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n

“My gratitude goes out to those people because as you can imagine, it was a very hectic and confusing scene,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Some people at the event assisted with first aid and were of significant help to QPS, QAS and all emergency services that responded.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queensland teenager has died in hospital days after a drive-by shooting at a pub south of Brisbane.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,802,48,245397,508991,33678,512142,44,4106,4905,508961],"class_list":["post-944916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-crime","tag-drive-by-shooting","tag-fitzys","tag-logan","tag-loganholme","tag-news","tag-queensland-police","tag-shooting","tag-vana-reese-schuster-togiatau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944916","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=944916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}