Police charge man over Australia s only unsolved police shooting
Queensland detectives have charged a man over Australia s only unsolved police shooting.
Senior Constable Neill Scutts was shot in the groin when two men robbed a bank in Browns Plains, south of Brisbane, in March 1999.
The officer had to undergo emergency surgery after the bullet passed through his buttocks and narrowly missed a major artery.
Two men wearing plastic masks and surgical gloves fired at a second police officer before fleeing the bank with a sum of cash and two staff members as hostages.
The bank at Browns Plains that was robbed by two men in 1999. (Queensland Police)
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Man charged over 1999 police shooting but $500k reward still on offer in search for two more men
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Senior Constable Neil Scutts was shot while responding to a bank robbery in 1999.
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Queensland police have had a major breakthrough in Australia s only unsolved police shooting , where an officer was shot during a 1999 bank heist.
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The $500,000 reward money is still on offer
It is the only unsolved police shooting in Australia
A 49-year-old Brisbane man was arrested in the Logan area yesterday, after a search of seven properties in Logan, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.
The man appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning charged with a total of 13 offences, including attempted murder, armed robbery with violence and deprivation of liberty.