Pictured: The smirking face of evil cop killer Stacey Train
The 45-year-old female cop killer of the Doomsday cult trio was shot dead 'running from the house carrying a rifle'.
Daily Mail Australia can exclusively reveal the three firearms used by Stacey Train, her husband Gareth Train, 47, and her ex-husband, Nathaniel Train, 46, were a shotgun, and a pair of rifles, a .22LR and a 30-06.
The firearms used by the Trains before they stole two police-issue Glock pistols from the bodies of slain constables Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26, were described by one cop as 'farm guns ... not the sort of weapon you'd use to win a shoot out and escape'.
Chilling new details have also emerged about Ms Train's involvement in the shootout at the remote Wieambilla property three hours west of Brisbane which also claimed the life of Good Samaritan neighbour Alan Dare, 58.
Police originally considered whether she was forced into opening fire on police by the two brothers.
It's been revealed Ms Train, alongside her husband and brother-in-law stood over Mr Arnold and Ms McCrow lying on the ground and shot them dead from point-blank range. The trio were shot dead by tactical police six hours later.
The three rifles used by Stacey Train, her husband Gareth Train, 47, and her ex-husband, Nathaniel Train, 46, used in the murders and the deadly gun battle were a shotgun, a .22LR and a 30-06 rifle (scene at the Wieambilla property is pictured)
Nathaniel Train (right), his brother Gavin Train (left) gunned down two police officers and a neighbour
'There was a thought that Stacey may have been an unwilling participant but she was shooting at police with the best of them,' a police source told The Australian.
'She got shot and went down and was still shooting at police as she was laying on the ground. She was then shot and killed.'
Police are now investigating whether the Trains were preparing to ambush officers.
The trio had planted cruel obstacles like scraps of metal and large tree trunks to trick the unsuspecting officers into running towards planned 'kill zones' where they could be shot at in the open.
One of the trio was wearing a ghillie suit.
A network infra-red motion sensors, not reliant on centrally connected electricity were designed to sound alarms and alert the Trains of anyone entering the property.
Police are also investigating an eerie detail about the Train trio who vanished from the property just weeks before Monday's siege and shootout.
Following one of two fires at the 43ha property on Wains Road at Wieambilla, three hours west of Brisbane, firefighters arrived to discover the wooden house occupied by Stacey and the two Train brothers empty and the grounds abandoned.
Brothers Gareth (left) and Nathaniel Train (back) had been holed up in the Wains Road house armed with a shotgun and two firearms.
The police heroes who who put their lives on the line to rescue a fellow officer from certain death, and bravely retrieved the bodies of two slain colleagues, were not from the crack special operations team (pictured) but country town coppers
The police vehicle which was at the scene was towed away on Wednesday, riddled in bullets demonstrating the ferocity of the shootout
How a group of raw bush cops braved booby traps, 'kill zones' and hidden cameras in trees to take on the Doomsday shooters and save the life of a third officer
The police heroes who who put their lives on the line to rescue a fellow officer from certain death, and bravely retrieved the bodies of two slain colleagues, were not from the crack special operations team but country town coppers.
Awaiting the 12 brave officers at the remote Wieambilla property in Queensland was a network of booby traps rigged with secret cameras and motion sensors all leading to 'kill zones' - with police now all but certain the attack was premeditated.
Stacey Train, her husband Gareth and brother-in-law Nathaniel Train, had been holed up in the Wains Road house armed with an array of weapons.
The paranoid, conspiracy-driven trio had a stockpile of ammunition, rifles and a shotgun, with one even wearing a ghillie suit to sneak up on officers.
Hidden cameras had been installed in trees surrounding the homestead while infra-red motion sensors alerted the main house if anyone had entered the booby-trapped fortress.
The Trains had planted cruel obstacles like scraps of metal and large tree trunks to trick the unsuspecting officers into running towards planned 'kill zones' where they could be shot at in the open.
When the cold-blooded family fatally gunned down two young constables at their remote Queensland property on Monday, the call went out for police from around the Darling Downs area to urgently provide back-up while the Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) was being readied to deploy.
They arrived to see the bodies of two officers lying in the driveway of the home, and another terrified young officer hiding somewhere out in the bush where a fire had been lit to flush her out, as she desperately texted loved ones in the expectation she too would be killed.
SERT members - who eventually killed the brothers and wife who were holed up in the house - have been quick to praise the efforts of the country officers, whose day-to-day duties are more usually along the lines of traffic infringements and petty crime, not deadly gunfights like the one they encountered on Monday.
A local resident told Daily Mail Australia that a former Wains Road neighbour had made at least seven reports about suspicious fires on the property over a six-month period, alarmed by the possibility of the blazes igniting major bushfires.
The same former neighbour also reported the sound of gunshots coming from the Train property or nearby.
Mrs Train was a respected school principal before falling under the spell of conspiracy theories before being shot dead alongside husband Gareth and her brother-in-law, ex-husband Nathaniel at their property in Wieambilla, about 10.30pm on Monday.
The firefight came after the camouflage-clad trio killed Ms McCrow and Mr Arnold, who'd arrived at the remote home looking for Nathaniel, who was reported missing a year ago.
Gareth and Stacey Train had religiously stayed off the grid after the paranoid pair become obsessed with extreme conspiracy theories - including anti-vax beliefs that saw her quit her job as head of curriculum at nearby Tara Shire State College.
Following one of two fires at the 43ha property on Wains Road at Wieambilla, three hours west of Brisbane , firefighters arrived to discover the wooden house occupied by Stacey and the two Train brothers empty and the grounds abandoned
Almost no photos exist of the killer couple but Daily Mail Australia has obtained an image of Mrs Train posing with students when she was the principal at Quinalow P-10 State School, north-west of Brisbane, at an awards night in 2010.
Wearing a pearl necklace and patterned beige dress, she smiled awkwardly for the camera in the rare picture.
Quinalow is one of a long list of primary schools in Queensland where 'Mrs Train' had stints as principal.
All three killers who were locked in a bizarre love triangle had worked for Queensland Department of Education in the last 15 years, but all had quit by the time of the savage ambush on Monday.
Mrs Train was also principal at Herberton, Mitchell and Proston State Schools and others in far north Queensland around Mount Isa, before taking up a post as head of curriculum and a teacher's aide at Tara Shire State College in 2019.
But the staunch anti-vaxxer quit that job in December rather than take a Covid jab.
Stacey was once married to Nathaniel Train (pictured on their wedding day) before she married his brother Gareth
Almost no photos exist of the killer couple but Daily Mail Australia has obtained an image of Mrs Train posing with students when she was the principal at Quinalow P-10 State School, north-west of Brisbane, at an awards night in 2010
Quinalow is one of a long list of primary schools in Queensland where 'Mrs Train' (circled in red in this picture from 2011) had stints as principal
Gareth Train also resigned from the department in May 2016, where he had reportedly worked as a school groundsman.
His brother, Nathaniel Train, resigned from the department in March 2020, a spokesperson for the Queensland Government said.
None of them were subject to any Departmental disciplinary proceedings at the time of their departures, and Nathaniel Train went on to work in the school system in NSW's central west.
A former student at Tara Shire State College, told Daily Mail Australia that Stacey felt as if she had to quit her job due to the school's mandatory immunisation policy.
Like her husband and brother-in-law, Mrs Train believed in a range of false conspiracy theories - hers centring around concerns about Covid vaccines.
Constables Rachel McCrow, 29 (left) and Matthew Arnold, 26, (right) were both gunned down upon entering Gareth Train's property in Wieambilla, rural Queensland
Four officers were at this Wains Road property at Wieambilla when they were fired upon
The former student said Mrs Train was 'her own person, but nice' and lived as something of a recluse - only ever travelling into town in Tara, about 45 minutes from her property, to go to work.
Like many people in the Wieambilla area, the former student heard gunshots on Monday evening and was shocked to learn the shoot-out happened so close to her home.
She said it was 'unsettling' and she felt rattled, but was even more shocked to learn her old teacher was caught up in the incident.
Before the murderous trio moved to Wieambilla, the three of them owned a four-bedroom home together in Millstream, about 150km south-west of Cairns in far North Queensland, which they sold in 2009.
A neighbour from their Millstream days paints a very different picture from the Trains' reputation at school, describing them as 'paranoid' and aggressive' people, who didn't want any attention.
The property, owned by Gareth, who spoke of prepping his home for an apocalypse, and his wife Stacey was well off the grid, had extensive solar panels and water tanks
'They just weren't nice people and showed the potential for just this sort of thing even way back then,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'They had barbed wire and gates and fences around the property too - that's normal on rural properties like these, but they had surveillance cameras and spotlights and things like that which was a bit out of the ordinary back then.'
He said Stacey and Gareth lived on the property full time, and Nathaniel would stay there on the weekends.
'They had children who would be in the 20s now - they obviously don't live with their parents any more though,' the former neighbour added.
After they sold the Millstream property in 2009, the trio formally changed their home address to the address of Proston State School - where Mrs Train worked as the principal for a short time.
One of the two surviving officers, Constable Keeley Brough (pictured) fled into surrounding bushland
A third officer, Constable Randall Kirk, 28, and a soon to be father-of-two, was shot in the leg but managed to escape. He is now recovering in hospital
Neighbour Alan Dare (pictured) was shot dead by the armed trio after he went to investigate the gunshots
HOW THE TRAGEDY UNFOLDED
Monday 4.30pm: Four officers attended a property on Wains Road at Wieambilla as part of inquiries into a missing school principal Nathaniel Train, 46, last seen in Dubbo in central-west NSW a year ago
4.30-5pm: Two gunmen dressed in camo, Nathaniel Train and his brother Gareth opened fire as police approached the house
Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, and his colleague Rachel McCrow, 29, were shot at close range and hit the ground. The gunmen stood over the injured officers and shot them dead before taking their Glock pistols. Neighbour Alan Dare, 58, was also shot dead.
After 5pm: A third officer, Constable Randall Kirk, who was shot in the leg but managed to escape is taken to the local hospital. His colleague, rookie cop Constable Keely Brough fled into surrounding bushland and is later rescued by a specialist police tactical team.
6pm: Police declare an emergency declaration zone encompassing the area between Chinchilla Tara Rd, Wieambilla Rd, Bennetts School Rd, and Mary Street.
After 6pm: Sporadic gunfire was reported by locals throughout the night
10.30pm: Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll pays tribute to the killed officers in an emotional press conference
11.30pm: Nathaniel Train and his brother Gareth, along with the brother's wife Stacey are shot dead following shootout with Special Emergency Response Team police
Tuesday morning: A convoy of police vehicles accompanying the bodies of the two slain police officers carried in vans left the crime scene en route to Brisbane's forensic mortuary on Tuesday morning.
The remains of constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold are expected to arrive by late morning at the John Tonge centre at Coopers Plains in Brisbane's west, where they will undergo autopsies.
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