{"id":956166,"date":"2026-07-24T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/956166\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:36:20","slug":"police-officer-shot-while-responding-to-call-on-the-fraser-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/956166\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer shot while responding to call on the Fraser Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A police officer has been shot while responding to an incident on the Fraser Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers were called to an incident on Horizon Court in Yengarie, west of Maryborough, just after 3pm following reports of a disturbance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police say one of the officers was shot in the leg while officers attempted to engage with a man at the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is understood the officer is in a stable condition and has been transported to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An emergency declaration has been made under the Public Safety Preservation Act in relation to the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yengarie police\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f20ec79e928822798ea0223e55ad41a3.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">An exclusion zone is in place for multiple streets in Yengarie. (ABC Wide Bay: James C Taylor)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The exclusion zone encompasses Lake Drive, Meadow Drive, and Mary View Drive along the Mary River in Yengarie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ergon has cut electricity to the suburb as the police operation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Residents are being urged to stay indoors, and members of the public are being urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a statement, the Queensland Police Union said a 36-year-old constable had sustained a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;He is receiving expert medical care, and the QPS is taking responsibility for notifying his immediate family,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It said the QPU Critical Incident Team was also assisting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer has been shot while responding to an incident on the Fraser Coast.\u00a0 Officers were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":956167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,252508,384635,50,35785,51884,7981,5488,384634,5236,384633],"class_list":["post-956166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-exclusion-zone","tag-maryborough","tag-news","tag-officer-involved-shooting","tag-police-incident","tag-police-officer","tag-police-shooting","tag-pspa","tag-queensland-police","tag-yengarie"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}