Man charged over 1999 shooting of police officer

Logan detectives have charged a 49-year-old man with the alleged attempted murder of a police officer during a bank robbery in Browns Plains in 1999.

It is alleged on March 24 1999, two men forced entry to a bank in Browns Plains before holding staff and customers at gunpoint.

Two responding police officers attended the scene and within moments, one of the officers, was allegedly shot by an offender.

Senior Constable Neil Scutts sustained a serious gunshot wound to his groin, missing major arteries by millimetres. His firearm, a Sturm Ruger .357 six-shot revolver was allegedly stolen and is yet to be recovered.

The offenders fled on foot allegedly taking two staff members as hostages before stealing a vehicle at gunpoint.

At the time…