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Alleged murderer Darryl Young had police gun ban overturned years before Bogie mass shooting massacre

The gunman who allegedly murdered three members of the same family in a rural Queensland town last week was banned from owning a gun license by police more than a decade ago before he successfully overturned the decision.

Queensland Police refused to renew Darryl Valroy Young’s gun license in 2010 after it found he was “not a fit and proper person” to hold firearms.

It added an approval for a license to own four rifles and a shotgun “was not considered to be in the public interest”, The Courier Mail reported.

But the 59-year-old appealed to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal in the same year he needed the weapons to kill feral animals on his sprawling property in Bogie, south-west of Bowen, in northern Queensland’s Whitsundays region.

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Young argued he had not broken laws that would prevent the Queensland Police from renewing his firearms license – which was first acquired in 1998.

“I would like the Tribunal to over turn the rejection notice as I have not broken any laws to stop me having a gun license,” Young wrote.

“…There is no were (sic) in the laws of the gun laws that I have broken to stop me having a gun license… I need my gun license for my business.

“I hope the Court overturns the decision so I can have my license.”

He was charged with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder on Friday following the shooting incident that rocked the town one day earlier.

Police will allege in court three family members – couple Mervyn, 71, and Maree Schwarz, 59, and their son Graham Tighe, 35 – were fatally shot on Thursday by Young at the boundary of their huge properties after the parties agreed to meet the night before.

The other son, Ross Tighe, was left in a critical condition after a shotgun wound to the abdomen. He was able to escape about 40 kilometers in a ute and raise the alarm.

Young appeared at Proserpine Magistrates Court via video link on Monday morning. His legal team did not apply for bail.

He will remain behind bars at a Queensland correctional facility until the case is mentioned again in just under three months on November 1.

Neighbors of the Schwarz’s traveled more than an hour from their town to the courthouse to support the alleged victims and their families.

The Schwarz’s had moved next door to the Young’s in the town with a population of about 200 people after purchasing the 29,000 hectare farm in May 2021.

Police will allege the couple and one of their sons were murdered at the front of the Shannonvale Rd property over an ongoing dispute about boundaries of the homes.

Anyone in the area with information who has knowledge, information of any issues in the area, or spoke with either family, should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Qld farm massacre: Man, 59, charged with gunning down three people, attempted murder of fourth man

Police have charged a 59-year-old man with the murders of three people who were gunned down at their rural property in the Whitsundays and the attempted murder of a fourth man.

Married couple Mervyn, 71, and Maree Schwarz, 59, and their son Graham Tinge, 35, were shot and killed at their cattle farm in Bogie, about 35 minutes south-west of Bowen on Thursday morning.

Their other son, Ross, was shot in the abdomen and bleeding heavily, but managed to flee the scene in a ute and notify police.

He underwent emergency surgery at MacKay Base Hospital on Thursday night and has been well enough to speak to detectives.

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Police charged the family’s 59-year-old neighbor with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder on Friday.

Mackay Detective Inspector Tom Armitt told reporters alleged the offender and four victims had arranged to meet that morning.

“What we do know is that all parties are neighbours, some conversation has occurred between the parties and resulted in a meeting up at the parties’ boundary line earlier that morning when the incident occurred,” he said.

“We understand that there was a conversation the night before and that was the reason they met the next morning.

“What I can say is that there was an invitation for them to go there and discuss.”

Police said the distance between the properties is about a 45-minute drive.

The Schwarz family purchased the property in the last 12 months, Detective Armitt said, while their 59-year-old neighbor is a long-term resident.

He will appear in the Proserpine Magistrates Court on Monday, August 8.

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Investigation continues following triple fatality after shooting on cattle property near Bogie in north Queensland

Queensland police say they are questioning three people, including the suspected shooter, over a triple fatality at a cattle property in Bogie in north Queensland.

Three people were found dead and a man was critically wounded after the shooting on the cattle property near Collinsville on Thursday morning.

The injured man, who was airlifted to Mackay Hospital with a gunshot wound to his abdomen, is in a serious but stable condition after undergoing surgery late yesterday.

Police said they were still working to determine a motive for the shooting but are questioning three people.

Police issued an emergency declaration yesterday under the Public Safety Preservation Act for an area at Shannonvale Road, south-east of Collinsville, which remains in place.

Nearby residents have been advised to stay away from the area and multiple crime scenes have been established.

The three people who died and the injured man are all from the same family but the police did not confirm their identities.

Mackay District Superintendent Tom Armitt said police were searching an “extensive” farming area that is “hilly and heavily forested”.

Paramedics help a man from a medical helicopter, hidden behind a sheet
A man was flown to Mackay Hospital with critical injuries after suffering a gunshot wound to the abdomen.(ABC News: Melissa Madison)

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