More chilling details emerge about the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old policeman and the subsequent siege with 40-year-old Rick Maddison, west of Brisbane.
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Cop killer shot dead, Queensland police say
A man who killed a police officer in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley has been shot dead, police say.