 Crimes involving violence, particularly firearms, are always very concerning to police and the community and we fully understand that. Investigations so far have not determined any link between the three offences in the last 24 hours. Police are investigating these matters as a high priority and the community can rest assured that we will aggressively pursue all lines of inquiry. In relation to the incident at Upper Mount Gravatt yesterday afternoon, a swift police response has already led to a 24-year-old male being charged and obviously as that offender is now before the court, it's not appropriate for me to make any detailed comment in relation to that specific incident. Investigations are ongoing in relation to the other two incidents at Pimperma and Banyo and we would encourage any members of the public who have any information in relation to either offence to contact crime stoppers anonymously if necessary on 1800 triple three triple zero. Thank you, happy to take questions. It will be alleged that the victim and the offender were known to each other and that the offence happened inside an address. Now we're just concerned that initially obviously we didn't know the identity of the offender and he had been seen going into a house. We weren't sure what the circumstances were who was in the house so as a precaution we obviously established a court and brought in the necessary resources to make sure that it was resolved quickly and safely and try and prevent any further danger or any other member of the public who was not involved. No we haven't, we're still waiting to interview the victim at hospital and we're hoping that that interview will lead us to some better information about the circumstances of this including where the actual offence happened, the primary crime scene. He received multiple gunshot wounds in the torso and the leg, I'm led to believe. He's undergoing surgery but I understand the latest advice is that the injuries are not life-threatening at this stage. The forensic investigation is obviously still ongoing and it's fairly early in the investigation so I'm not able to particularise the type of weapon that may have been used other than to say that the victim did receive multiple wounds. Yes they are. Yes the information we have is that the victim is a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang but it's yet to be determined whether that membership has anything to do with the circumstances of the offence, the rebels. Now look it's far too early, we have no reason to believe that there is presently any tension that might have led to this and as I said the fact that this individual happens to be a member of a gang may be purely coincidental and unrelated to the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Now I understand that the house that he went to for assistance was just a personal friend of his. Now that's one of many questions that we're unsure of at the moment. I would suggest that it probably occurred not too long before he drove to the house for help but exactly where it occurred we simply don't know. So could I ask anybody in the Brisbane metro area who may have heard gun shots in the early hours of this morning or has any other information they think might be relevant to contact crime stoppers. The North Brisbane District CIB have set up a major incident room at Hendra Police we're taking this very seriously and members of the public can either call the police there or through crime stoppers. Obviously I wasn't at the scene but I'm told that there was a significant amount of blood inside the vehicle. The wounds were obviously very serious and was treated as an emergency situation he was taken immediately to hospital for surgery. Now look that won't be established until we get the chance to speak to him and try and flesh out all of the circumstances of this. All that we know is he did present himself at the friend's house around 3 a.m. this morning and they contacted police and the ambulance. Well look that's not an obstacle that we think we're necessarily going to confront we'll just have to deal with that on a case by case basis we haven't had a chance to speak to the victim yet so it's difficult to speculate on his level of cooperation with us. Well if the victim were to choose not to cooperate with us it just makes our task a little bit difficult but we're used to that approach we certainly don't let that deter us and you can rest assured that we will pursue this investigation as vigorously as we possibly can with or without the assistance of the victim. Just as I'm told just a member I don't have that information with me I'm sorry. I'm not aware that we've actually seized anything obviously we would examine the house the vehicle for any possible forensic evidence but as I say we're confident that's not the primary crime scene and that's yet to be established. No I don't. Yeah look until we know the circumstances he could have been shot at a very near location or he could have been shot somewhere quite some distance away and driven we simply don't know so I could speculate all day long but we just simply don't know the circumstances and the location where the shooting occurred and so that's what we're waiting to talk to the victim to try and help us fill in all those pieces. I understand or hoping that we'll be able to do that later today. Now I think it's a consequence of his surgery and hospitalisation that we'll just have to wait for an appropriate time when we can get that opportunity. As I said we're not in position yet because we haven't finished the forensic examination to determine whether it was a single weapon and if so what sort of a weapon. What's this perception out there once again gun violence? Is it out of control? No look I can understand community concerns whenever we have a firearm related crime it's obviously a cause of concern to the community and it's a cause of concern to the police department that's why we put very significant resources into solving as many of these offences as we can. The fact is in the last 24 hours we've just had an unfortunate convergence of three incidents which at this stage have absolutely no link so it gives a false impression. Are there any statistics you can provide us to compare this year to last year? Where do we compare in terms of gun crime or violence attacks? What I can say is that anyone who studied the statistics on homicide would know that there's been a steady decline in the use of firearms in homicides and the same is true of armed robbery. The vast majority of armed robberies are not committed by offenders who have real weapons. They are committed by people who have knives or other weapons or replica weapons. What that suggests to me is that people have difficulty accessing illegal firearms and they have to resort to other weapons. Pimpa Morrow as you know a man entered that premises made demands to get some property and fired a weapon once into the league of the victim there. We'll be speaking to the victim and the other occupant of the house again today to see if we can establish any more information than we received yesterday. Sorry? No look we're we're investigating that matter very aggressively. The CUMRA CIB have the lead on that assisted by the major and organized crime squad on the Gold Coast and I say anyone who has any information please contact Crime Stoppers or the CUMRA CIB because that's a standard practice anytime we have a firearm involved crime on the Gold Coast that's part of their charter. No not to my knowledge. There's no information to that effect at the moment. I think he said in statements yesterday that he didn't know that person but we're going to speak again to him and the other person who's present to see if they can add any more information to what they told us yesterday. What's your response when the man comes up to him and tells you what's the car keys is a gun he tells the bloke where to go. Is that a brave or a foolish act? Well it's always difficult in the circumstance without knowing who the antecedents of the people involved but it's always a calculated risk confronting someone who's got a loaded firearm and you're not armed then my advice would be to be compliant. No the as I understand the offence occurred outside of the house but inside the property line. No it's not it's a very concerning event it led to someone being shot we take that incredibly seriously and that's reflected in the response in terms of the resources and the priority that we give these investigations. No we're very concerned about it we don't like to see this sort of crime happen and either it's a community. Look I'm not able to speculate on that obviously the matters before the court and it just wouldn't be appropriate for me to go into any sort of details like that. Well if there have been I'm certainly not aware of any link to yesterday's offence we're treating that as a one-off and there's nothing that I'm aware of that would suggest it's been linked to any previous offences of a like nature. Look we take firearm crime very seriously as you know we've established a major and organized crime of 30 officers on the Gold Coast we've established a firearms team specifically for the Gold Coast we have a state firearms trafficking team in Brisbane. We take it seriously and I think we're resourcing it appropriately. There's going to be a separate press conference held right now up on the Sunshine Coast and the local detective inspector will be detailing that suffice to say the difference between these offences is no firearm involved in that offence at all. Look I'm not able to confirm that but I expect that Detective Inspector Drinnon who's doing that will be able to provide whatever details we can. Thank you very much.