Man charged after allegedly shooting rifle at four people

ACT Policing has charged a 20-year-old man after he allegedly shot a hunting rifle at four men on a property near Uriarra Village, west of Canberra.

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00:00Police were notified of an incident occurring at a property in Koorie near Uriara.

00:05A 20-year-old man, who was with four other men known to him,

00:09is alleged to have had a verbal disagreement with them.

00:12The man is alleged to have retrieved a firearm and used it to shoot at the men multiple times.

00:17The four men then fled the scene and were able to hide and dial 000.

00:22Police arrived a short time later and commenced an operation to rescue the four men,

00:27locating them on the property and moving them to safety.

00:30They were not injured during the incident.

00:33Just after 10pm last night, police located the alleged offender

00:38riding a quad bike attempting to exit the property

00:41and he was subsequently arrested.

00:43Fortunately last night, despite the potential for it to be a different story,

00:47we had a good outcome where our four potential victims

00:53and the alleged offender all came out without significant injury,

00:57no injuries to the police as well.

00:59Yeah, it is a very dangerous situation where there's a high calibre rifle

01:03and it's allegedly being used to target other human beings.

01:09It's a situation that 99% of the population, I would say, would try to run away from.

01:15Unfortunately, that's not the gig for police and other emergency responders.

01:20They did a fantastic job last night under very difficult circumstances.

01:25It's a remote rural property, it was raining quite heavily

01:29and to contain that scene and to get the result that we had

01:32is just a testament to the people that were out there and did the job.