2019 Darwin shooting

On 4 June 2019, a mass shooting happened in the CBD of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Police said that four people were killed in the incident and another person was injured. A 45-year-old gunman was arrested.

Witnesses say the gunman entered the Palms Hotel on McMinn Street, Darwin and used a pump-action (or sawn-off) shotgun to shoot a hotel room door. Around 20 shots were fired by the suspect. 

At the time of his arrest, the man, a suspected member of a motorcycle gang who had been released from prison in January, was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.

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