Man shot dead on Logan Motorway by Queensland police linked to double murder ‘terrorism event’

A young man who was shot dead by police on the Logan Motorway yesterday has been “directly linked” to the double murder of an elderly couple, with officers describing the incident as a “terrorism event”, Queensland police say.

The bodies of Maurice and Zoe Antill, both in their mid-80s, were found at a house in the southern Brisbane suburb of Parkinson yesterday afternoon.

Yesterday morning Raghe Mohamed Abdi, 22, was fatally shot by police on the Logan Motorway, not far from Parkinson, after allegedly threatening officers with a knife.

Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford said further forensic examinations of the two scenes revealed they were connected.